VB.Net: Problem deleting an image used by a PictureBox

[krungkrung]

hi again to everyone!

I made a simple program(for my VB.Net practice). The program loads an image file to a picturebox upon clicking a button. after loading the image file i have another button to delete the loaded image file from the directory. But I have a problem deleting the image file used by the picturebox even if I set the "PictureBox1.Im age = Nothing" before deletion takes place. The error says, "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process". What must be the problem with this? can somebody give me an Idea how will i deal with this problem?

Here's my code on delete process:

Private Sub RemoveFromDirectory(ByVal strFile As String)

        Dim strDirectory As String

        strDirectory = Application.StartupPath & "\Images"

            If File.Exists(strDirectory & "\" & strFile & ".jpg") = True Then
                PictureBox1.Image = Nothing
                File.Delete(strDirectory & "\" & strFile & ".jpg")
            End If

End Sub

**strDirectory --> the image file loaded on a pic box

[nukefusion]

When you load an image into a picturebox that file is indeed locked. The lock will probably maintain until, in development, you restart your IDE, or in a release environment, your app is restarted.
To get around this, load the image from a file stream object as per the following example:

Dim fs As System.IO.FileStream
' Specify a valid picture file path on your computer.
fs = New System.IO.FileStream("C:\WINNT\Web\Wallpaper\Fly Away.jpg", 
     IO.FileMode.Open, IO.FileAccess.Read)
PictureBox1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(fs)
fs.Close()

The filestream object should release the lock on the image once closed.

[krungkrung]

yeah it works! thanks a lot nukefusion!

[Ahmed Volcano]

Thanks bro , this really helped me

[roberto1959]

do the following

ceate a batch file like

del <file_name>

name it clear.bat

when you leave your program call it using shell clear.bat

it works in vb 2010

[Jaylala03]

yeah it works! thanks a lot !