Drag images on to a Picturebox from Explorer

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>Hi,
Im looking for a way to drag and drop pictures from windows explorer to a Picturebox on a form using C#.

Ideally it would resize to the picturebox and be saved along with other textbox details on the form, to a database.

Any suggestions as to where I could start reading up for this. I have no experience with drag drop other than a couple of code snippets i have seen dealing with dragging pictures from control to control on the form.
All help is appreciated.

Posted 14-Jul-10 7:34am

danthen00b

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2010-07-14T08:31:00

Solution 1

Have a look at this[^]
It's a bit old, but it's should still work.

Google - wonderful tool, isn't it?
This was number 1 result for "c# drag drop picturebox"...

Posted 14-Jul-10 8:31am

OriginalGriff

danthen00b · Answer 2 · 2010-07-17T11:33:00

Solution 2

Sadly doesnt help.

and it must be old, Vis studio doesnt recognise half the using statements.

Posted 17-Jul-10 11:33am

danthen00b

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Christian Graus 17-Jul-10 19:42pm

I guess you need to buy a C# book or something. If Visual Studio doesn't recognise a using statement, then you need to import the right dll, I don't know of ANY breaking changes, EVER, between versions of visual studio.

Eddy Vluggen 18-Jul-10 6:19am

The example-project that Griff mentions is referencing libraries from .NET v1.1 - install that framework and it'll work. (I ran the project on my own PC right now to confirm that)

Alternatively, you can upgrade the project to a more recent framework.

Toli Cuturicu 23-Jul-10 16:54pm

Reason for my vote of 1
fake answer