“A generic error occurred in GDI+” when attempting to use Image.Save

Question

I am developing an Outlook 2010 Add-In, and am loading an image from a serialized XML file. The image loads fine, and am able to assign it to a pictureBox object on a Winfo

Answer 1

In my case it was a spelling mistake in the path to the directory where I was saving the image:

if (Directory.Exists(directory_path))
{
 image.SaveAs(directory_path + filename);
}

As gaffleck said it would be nice if GDI+ had thrown more informative exception.