You're making the assumption that the SaveAs dialog restricts the extension the user can use. Wrong. This only filter the filenames listed in the dialog box. You're code has to make sure the extension is correct, and fix it if it's not, after the user clicks OK and before you open the stream to start writing your data. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

OK - there are two special colors in a cursor, are you using one of them ? Perhaps you've marked a transparent area, and that's what's failing to load properly ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

lsconyer, You need to convert the image to a byte[] and then store the byte[]. Though, if you store the image locally, you could just store the name/location of the image which would be easier. Regards, Gareth.

Hi Try using the GetType() method instead of the Type keyword in your code