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how could i solve this problem "Parameter is not valid" when set image as background of form .

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this.BackgroundImage = new Bitmap(@"..\pic\background.jpg");

Posted 14-Dec-12 7:07am

azizamustafa

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Jibesh 14-Dec-12 13:16pm

can you post the full exception message.

The code and the parameter you passed looks ok to me.

azizamustafa 14-Dec-12 13:19pm

System.ArgumentException
Parameter is not valid

this is the full exception message .

Jibesh 14-Dec-12 13:22pm

sounds your there wont be any folder call Pic or any image name with background.jpg

try giving full path "C:\\Pic\background" for debugging instead of ..\Pic\background.jpg'

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-12-14T07:27:00

The code you show is correct, except that there are no situations where a hard-coded file path can be useful, absolute or relative. File paths are always calculated during runtime based on user input, some configuration data, assembly location or "special folders" calculated based on directories associated with a user of for "all users". The problem is somewhere else.

It could be

C#

System.Drawing.Bitmap bitmap = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(/* ... */);

//...

myForm.BackgroundImage = bitmap;

Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.form.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.backgroundimage.aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp#code-snippet-1[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.bitmap.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.image.aspx[^].

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Jibesh · Answer 2 · 2012-12-14T07:29:00

Solution 3

Argument exception is because your application failed to locate the file or folder you passed as the argument.

If you use "..\Pic\fileName" means the relative path will be something like this

eg: your executable is running from C:\Samples\Executables\myProject.exe

when you run your application , its trying to load the image from
C:\Samples\Pic\background.jpg

Posted 14-Dec-12 7:29am

Jibesh

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azizamustafa 14-Dec-12 13:33pm

thank you all very much . your answers help me very much and the problem solved . thanks all

Jibesh 14-Dec-12 13:34pm

Great!!! happy to hear that. you can mark this solution as accepted so that others refer it in future.

wmdroshan · Answer 3 · 2012-12-14T07:21:00

Solution 1

Hi,
Syntax is correct. Issue should be that the specified file does not exist in the specified path. Please verify the file name and path again. Path is relative to the executable location (make sure whether debug folder or release folder that you target).
Regards.

Posted 14-Dec-12 7:21am

wmdroshan

Updated 14-Dec-12 7:24am

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M.Edmison · Answer 4 · 2012-12-14T07:53:00

Here is what I do instead of looking to the path of the image:

Add that image as a resource in the project:

Then add a property in a object class to house the get/set of that image. (optional)

then you can call the class that the image is get/set in and then the image name that will collect it.

that should change this:

C#

this.BackgroundImage = new Bitmap(@"..\pic\background.jpg");.

to this:

this.BackgroundImage = new Bitmap([...appname].Properties.Resources.[imagename]).

[...appname] should be replaced with the main namespace of your applicationname.
[imagename] should be replaced with the name you assigned to that image when you added to the resoureces.

I had the same problem that I fixed but if you use the application on a different machine then that path could be different if your pulling from an in general file and avoids looking into the bin file statically.

Hope that helps.