Resizing Images in VB.NET

Question

I'd like to make a simple VB utility to resize images using vb.net. I am having trouble figuring out what vb class to use to actually manipulate the images. The Image class and the Bitmap class don't work.

Any ideas, hints, tips, tutorial links are greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can simply use this one line code to resize your image in visual basic .net

Public Shared Function ResizeImage(ByVal InputImage As Image) As Image
        Return New Bitmap(InputImage, New Size(64, 64))
End Function

Where;

1. "InputImage" is the image you want to resize.
2. "64 X 64" is the required size you may change it as your needs i.e 32X32 etc.

Answer 2

Here is an article with full details on how to do this.

Private Sub btnScale_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnScale.Click
    ' Get the scale factor.
    Dim scale_factor As Single = Single.Parse(txtScale.Text)

    ' Get the source bitmap.
    Dim bm_source As New Bitmap(picSource.Image)

    ' Make a bitmap for the result.
    Dim bm_dest As New Bitmap( _
        CInt(bm_source.Width * scale_factor), _
        CInt(bm_source.Height * scale_factor))

    ' Make a Graphics object for the result Bitmap.
    Dim gr_dest As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bm_dest)

    ' Copy the source image into the destination bitmap.
    gr_dest.DrawImage(bm_source, 0, 0, _
        bm_dest.Width + 1, _
        bm_dest.Height + 1)

    ' Display the result.
    picDest.Image = bm_dest
End Sub

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