Loading a picture file Image.FromFile VS FileStream

Question

I must admit that I never understood what are the streams are all about- I always thought it\'s an internet thing. But now I run into a code that used a stream to load a fil

Answer 1

As an a addition to Jon´s answer:

As far as I see, the two methods don't do the same thing either. The first is given you the first image in "C:\" where the second just give you a image from a path. So the added complexity in the first is not just because it is using streams.

This would be equivalent:

using (var fs = File.OpenRead(path))
using (var img = Image.FromStream(fs))
{
    //...
}

and in that case, it is certainly better to just do it with Image.FromFile as Jon explained.