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openFileDialog1.Filter = "Images|*.jpg;*.gif;*.png|All files|*.*"; will display image files. You can use a PictureBox to display an image. There are tons of examples on Google. Cheers, Vikram. The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.

Hi zidan, try this. Add the code to your form class in a button event handler: if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK) { try { pictureBox1.Image = Bitmap.FromFile(openFileDialog1.FileName); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show("Unable to load specified image: " + ex.Message, "Failed", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error); } } Also, set the Filter property of openFileDialog1 to only accept image files, e.g. 'Picture files (*.png;*.jpg)|*.png;*.jpg' Good luck! Rob "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind"

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You've been asking for help since April 2006: http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/all_comments.asp?mode=all&userid=2113110[^] - wow. :omg: Well, I guess you should try the book which comes with Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: Build a program now! by Patrice Pelland. Its good for starting. You should also try searching on Google. :) Ashish Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]

Get a job where you are required to program in it, that's how I am, ummm, learning. Of course, buy book 3 days before with a trial visual studio version included and try out a couple of examples first ;) ok, so I'm not being useful, sorry. Actually, when I was looking for books, they all seemed to be entirely about GUI stuff, or entirely NOT about GUI stuff, there wasn't really anything that seemed to talk about both. This was from a limited selection though. Plus, the books that talked about the basics were WAY too simplistic. Yes, I wanted to know the basics, but I didn't want to spend a whole chapter on each item. I got it after the first paragraph, thanks. But the harder books didn't include any basics so I had no idea what they were talking about. Of course, if you are new IN PROGRAMMING rather than just new to C#, maybe you won't have that last problem; maybe the basics will require more than a paragraph to get. Get a book, try some stuff from it and work through it. Then try and do something harder, and you will soon discover what you don't know and the real learning will start as you try to find the answer. "Your typical day is full of moments where you ask for a cup of coffee and someone hands you a bag of nails." - Scott Adams

Try searching for tutorials here on the site or using google and download C# express edition or VB.NET express edition. WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "You can always try to smash it with a wrench to fix that. It might actually work" - WillemM

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here u have a great C# book for beginners http://rapidshare.de/files/17794428/C\_\_Programming\_for\_the\_Absolute\_Beginner.rar.html