Stretch image to fit pictureBox at runtime

[Richard Alvarez]

Ever wonder how to imitate the Image control property stretch in vb6? This piece of code will do the trick...

Public Sub AutosizeImage(ByVal ImagePath As String, ByVal picBox As PictureBox, Optional ByVal pSizeMode As PictureBoxSizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.CenterImage)
        Try
            picBox.Image = Nothing
            picBox.SizeMode = pSizeMode
            If System.IO.File.Exists(ImagePath) Then
                Dim imgOrg As Bitmap
                Dim imgShow As Bitmap
                Dim g As Graphics
                Dim divideBy, divideByH, divideByW As Double
                imgOrg = DirectCast(Bitmap.FromFile(ImagePath), Bitmap)

                divideByW = imgOrg.Width / picBox.Width
                divideByH = imgOrg.Height / picBox.Height
                If divideByW > 1 Or divideByH > 1 Then
                    If divideByW > divideByH Then
                        divideBy = divideByW
                    Else
                        divideBy = divideByH
                    End If

                    imgShow = New Bitmap(CInt(CDbl(imgOrg.Width) / divideBy), CInt(CDbl(imgOrg.Height) / divideBy))
                    imgShow.SetResolution(imgOrg.HorizontalResolution, imgOrg.VerticalResolution)
                    g = Graphics.FromImage(imgShow)
                    g.InterpolationMode = Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic
                    g.DrawImage(imgOrg, New Rectangle(0, 0, CInt(CDbl(imgOrg.Width) / divideBy), CInt(CDbl(imgOrg.Height) / divideBy)), 0, 0, imgOrg.Width, imgOrg.Height, GraphicsUnit.Pixel)
                    g.Dispose()
                Else
                    imgShow = New Bitmap(imgOrg.Width, imgOrg.Height)
                    imgShow.SetResolution(imgOrg.HorizontalResolution, imgOrg.VerticalResolution)
                    g = Graphics.FromImage(imgShow)
                    g.InterpolationMode = Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic
                    g.DrawImage(imgOrg, New Rectangle(0, 0, imgOrg.Width, imgOrg.Height), 0, 0, imgOrg.Width, imgOrg.Height, GraphicsUnit.Pixel)
                    g.Dispose()
                End If
                imgOrg.Dispose()

                picBox.Image = imgShow
            Else
                picBox.Image = Nothing
            End If


        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.ToString)
        End Try

    End Sub

====== To use this...=======
first copy the code in a module or somewhere else in your project then...

AutosizeImage(Trim('" Image file path "'), '" picture control here "', PictureBoxSizeMode.StretchImage)

There you have it... :D