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VB.NET Open and Save Images

Synopsis:

VB.Net makes opening images in a variety of formats and saving them incredibly easy using the system.drawing namespace. With only a few lines of code you can open an image in several formats and then save them to the same or another format. This code won't work for multi-image files such as tiff but you can use the drawing namespace to handle that with a bit more work. Here is the list of available formats: bmp,emf,exif,gif,Icon,jpeg,png,tiff,wmf.

The Code:

    'open a file
        Dim image As Drawing.Image

        image = image.FromFile(somefilepath) 'opens file in any format
       
    'save file
	Image.Save(somefilepath, Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp) 'save to bmp format
	Image.Save(somefilepath, Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg) 'save to jpeg format
	'etc