How do I get specific image from resources?

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So I have a button named "Portugal", "United States", "Spain".

I have a flag image named Portugal.png, United States.png, Spain.png in my resources.

I want whenever I click the buttons my form (e.g Portugal button) the Picturebox1.Image turns into Portugal.png and whenever I click the United States button the PIcturebox1.image turns into United States.png

Pseudo code:

Private Sub ButtonClick
Picturebox1.image = My.Resources(button1.text & ".png")
End Sub

What I have tried:

My.Resources(Button1.Text & ".png").

*Doesn't work*

Posted 21-Sep-16 6:55am

Daniel Santos

Updated 21-Sep-16 7:12am

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Richard Deeming 21-Sep-16 13:01pm

Why have you tagged your question as "C#" when you're using VB.NET?

Daniel Santos 21-Sep-16 13:02pm

I can easily convert it to VB.NET and I'll maybe get some more replies I think...

Richard Deeming 21-Sep-16 13:05pm

It's already VB.NET, but you've added the "C#" tag to your question. It's nothing to do with C#! :)

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Solution 2

this.pictureBox1.Image = global::RecordStock.Properties.Resources.CONFIG2;

Posted 2-May-21 15:52pm

bolitto

Updated 2-May-21 19:08pm

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-21T07:12:00

VB.NET's "My.Resources" provides strongly-typed access to the resources in your project. It has a property for each file embedded in the resources, but it doesn't provide an indexer to access the files with a dynamic name.

However, it does provide a property called ResourceManager, which will let you access the resources by name:
Retrieving Resources with the ResourceManager Class[^]

VB.NET

Protected Sub Button_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    Dim button As Button = DirectCast(sender, Button)
    Dim resource As Object = My.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject(button.Text)
    Picturebox1.Image = DirectCast(resource, Image)
End Sub

NB: You only need the name of the resource, not the file extension.