Adding an image to a control at runtime

There is an environment variable for the running executable so it can get a string representing the directory it loaded up from. f you are going to b einstalling your app to machines other than the development machine then you might want to a add a Setup project to your Solution. This handles setting up your app (built in another project of the same solution) on arbitrary machines. This includes development of directory layout. You then use in your app code the environment variable for the root directory of the app, and add to that the subdirectory and file name of the image you want to load up.

I think it's better not to make a program that searches a file tree for the image it wants, as searching both takes a long time and might not turn up what you want. It would probably be better if you included the image as an embedded resource in your executable or DLL.

use the System.IO.Directory class (getFiles method) to get specific files from a directory. this will return a string array with filenames, then you can load the with Image.fromFile().

You will have to ensure the file is at the specified path that you have hard coded. If not, you will have to hard code another path. There is a way to get the path of the appilcation...but I don't have it with me. It is easy to search for.