Windows forms add resource file

After the addition of the image, select the option as "none" and press OK so that when you run your project then by default a Picture box will show as blank. Now to code our app.

Right-click on your form and select View Code. Your code window will open. Step 7. Add a namespace to your code to pick image resources in each button, your namespace will look like this. In the preceding code, SinglePictureBox is the project name since I renamed it when I created a new project, if you have given any different name to your project then you must use that name only instead on SinglePictureBox.

Now turn on your GUL form design. Step 8. In the preceding code, Img1 will be displayed after button click. Again double-click on Button2 and code this in the click event. In the preceding code, Img3 will be displayed after button click.

Your coding is done and your final code will look like this. View All. Updating Resources shows an example of obtaining the resource data and its size from a file.

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Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? In this article. You can add images also with copy from Windows explorer and paste on image into resources designer. After you add the images resources, you should close the resource file, go to windows form designer, select the control on which you want to set image kind of property from resource and start the process of changing image.

You will see a dialog which have to option buttons which decide whether you will load image from local file, or from available resource images, and you can also import image to resource file from this dialog, and then select the image. To see what is going on in the code, open windows form designer code and find the image kind of property and see what the code will look like for loading image from resource.

You can use this to change the image dinamicaly if that is required. About strings on control, they will be placed in resources if your form Localizable property is set to true.