File Dialogs have a
Filter[
^] property that allows you to exclude any file types that you don't want. If you set it to only show files of image types (
bmp,
jpg, and
png for example) then you can be fairly sure that the file path it returns won't cause problems when you load it using the
Image class.
When loading a file using
Image.FromFile or something equivalent it's always good to put a
try - catch around the call just in case the image is valid. That should catch the case of trying to load an
Icon (or something else) into an
Image.
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