Out of memory exception while loading images

Question

I am using the following piece of code to load images as thumbnails to a FlowLayoutPanel control. Unfortunately i get an OutOfMemory exception.

As you already guess

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Jim Mischel answer led me to discover loading an innocent .txt file was the culprit. Here's my method in case anyone is interested.

Here's my method:

/// 

/// Loads every image from the folder specified as param.
/// 
/// Path to the directory from which you want to load images.  
/// NOTE: this method will throws exceptions if the argument causes 
/// Directory.GetFiles(path) to throw an exception.
/// An ImageList, if no files are found, it'll be empty (not null).
public static ImageList InitImageListFromDirectory(string pDirectory)
{
    ImageList imageList = new ImageList();

    foreach (string f in System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(pDirectory))
    {
        try
        {
            Image img = Image.FromFile(f);
            imageList.Images.Add(img);
        }
        catch
        {
            // Out of Memory Exceptions are thrown in Image.FromFile if you pass in a non-image file.
        }
    }

    return imageList;
}