c# picturebox memory releasing problem

Question

I\'m a newby in C#. I have to repeatedly refresh a GUI picture box in a worker thread. The image is acquired from a camera polling a driver with a GetImage method that retri

Answer 1

There are several ways to release an image from pbox. I strongly recommend the way is that do not use pbox.Image = Image.FromFile.... If you do not use FileStream and you want to read it from file use BitMap class. Like this:

Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(fileName);
pbox.Image = bmp; // notice that we used bitmap class to initialize pbox.

... and then you want to release the image file bmp.Dispose();
Now you can delete, move or whatever you want to the file.