'LoadPicture' is just not available in vb.net so how do i get round
this?

Donald

Thaddaeus gave you an example of the only known way to do this in .NET. It's
the only way to get an IPictureDisp from a System.Drawing.Image object. Your
reply to him stated that you didn't want to use Copy/Paste but his example
showed you how to use Picture and Mask, not Copy/Paste.

--
Josh Einstein
Einstein Technologies
Microsoft Tablet PC MVP
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 2.0 - Try it free for 14 days
www.tabletoutlook.com


"donald" wrote in message
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'LoadPicture' is just not available in vb.net so how do i get round
this?

Donald

Also note that if you are using the Word editor, PasteFace is your only
option: IPicture object cannot be marshaled across thee process boundaries:
Word inspectors live in the ewinword.exe process space rather than
outlook.exe
Also note that you can save the clipboard contents before copying a bitmap
to the clipboard and restore it afterwards. Babelfish sample COM add-in
source code (url below) has a utility class to do that (Delphi) - see
uSaveClipboard.pas file.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"Josh Einstein" wrote in message
...
Thaddaeus gave you an example of the only known way to do this in .NET.
It's the only way to get an IPictureDisp from a System.Drawing.Image
object. Your reply to him stated that you didn't want to use Copy/Paste
but his example showed you how to use Picture and Mask, not Copy/Paste.

--
Josh Einstein
Einstein Technologies
Microsoft Tablet PC MVP
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 2.0 - Try it free for 14 days
www.tabletoutlook.com


"donald" wrote in message
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'LoadPicture' is just not available in vb.net so how do i get round
this?

Donald

Be cautious about saving/restoring the clipboard contents because it can
have unintended side effects. For example, if the data object is a large
object on another machine (like in RDP) or in another process (like a 300mb
bitmap in photoshop) then you might introduce long unexpected blocks in your
application and spikes of memory use and the user will have no idea what is
going on since they didn't initiate a clipboard operation.

--
Josh Einstein
Einstein Technologies
Microsoft Tablet PC MVP
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 2.0 - Try it free for 14 days
www.tabletoutlook.com


"Dmitry Streblechenko" wrote in message
...
Also note that if you are using the Word editor, PasteFace is your only
option: IPicture object cannot be marshaled across thee process
boundaries: Word inspectors live in the ewinword.exe process space rather
than outlook.exe
Also note that you can save the clipboard contents before copying a bitmap
to the clipboard and restore it afterwards. Babelfish sample COM add-in
source code (url below) has a utility class to do that (Delphi) - see
uSaveClipboard.pas file.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"Josh Einstein" wrote in message
...
Thaddaeus gave you an example of the only known way to do this in .NET.
It's the only way to get an IPictureDisp from a System.Drawing.Image
object. Your reply to him stated that you didn't want to use Copy/Paste
but his example showed you how to use Picture and Mask, not Copy/Paste.

--
Josh Einstein
Einstein Technologies
Microsoft Tablet PC MVP
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 2.0 - Try it free for 14 days
www.tabletoutlook.com


"donald" wrote in message
oups.com...
'LoadPicture' is just not available in vb.net so how do i get round
this?

Donald

I try very think in this topic but i still can't get it working. I
don;t want to use the copy and paste because the user will loss there
clipboard and if you try so save it, it could be 300mb as explain
above.

So could some one who got it working post there code up. The code i
have is:

Dim path As String = "C:\Visual Studio
Projects\DC\DMCRM\icons\AddTelephoneCall.ico"

Dim imgconv As ImageConverter
Dim img As System.Drawing.Image

img = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(path)
Dim a As stdole.IPictureDisp =
imgconv.ImageToIPicDisp(img)

.Picture = a

Public Class ImageConverter
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.AxHost

Public Sub New(ByVal pGUID As String)
MyBase.New(pGUID)
End Sub

Public Shared Function ImageToIPicDisp(ByVal value As
System.Drawing.Image) As stdole.IPictureDisp
Return
System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetIPictureDispFromPic ture(value)
End Function

Public Shared Function IPicDispToImage(ByVal value As
stdole.IPictureDisp) As System.Drawing.Image
Return
System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetPictureFromIPicture Disp(CType(value,
Object))
End Function
End Class


the code get a error on this line ' .Picture = a'

any help please

Donald

As far as I know, you have to use a bitmap type of image.
(System.Drawing.Bitmap) Not an icon.

--
Josh Einstein
Einstein Technologies
Microsoft Tablet PC MVP
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 2.0 - Try it free for 14 days
www.tabletoutlook.com


"donald" wrote in message
oups.com...
I try very think in this topic but i still can't get it working. I
don;t want to use the copy and paste because the user will loss there
clipboard and if you try so save it, it could be 300mb as explain
above.

So could some one who got it working post there code up. The code i
have is:

Dim path As String = "C:\Visual Studio
Projects\DC\DMCRM\icons\AddTelephoneCall.ico"

Dim imgconv As ImageConverter
Dim img As System.Drawing.Image

img = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(path)
Dim a As stdole.IPictureDisp =
imgconv.ImageToIPicDisp(img)

.Picture = a

Public Class ImageConverter
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.AxHost

Public Sub New(ByVal pGUID As String)
MyBase.New(pGUID)
End Sub

Public Shared Function ImageToIPicDisp(ByVal value As
System.Drawing.Image) As stdole.IPictureDisp
Return
System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetIPictureDispFromPic ture(value)
End Function

Public Shared Function IPicDispToImage(ByVal value As
stdole.IPictureDisp) As System.Drawing.Image
Return
System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetPictureFromIPicture Disp(CType(value,
Object))
End Function
End Class


the code get a error on this line ' .Picture = a'

any help please

Donald

this is a bitmap type of image.

I look in to this and i don;t think it is Converting the image to a
ImageToIPicDisp in the right way.

I did some research on what you were trying to do. According to a thread I
found at ureader.com. Ken Slovak said that IPictureDisp constraint is that
the image must be a 16x16 256 color BMP. Other wise you might get the error
that you are experiencing.

If I were you I would convert your .ico to a .bmp and try to run the program
again. Or, go ahead and add the image to a resource file inside your add-in
and use a resource manager to pull the appropriate image out of and then use
the IPictureDisp code that you already have to render the image on the
commandbar button.

It's an idea, for what it's worth

Thaddaeus.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288771
"donald" wrote in message
oups.com...
I try very think in this topic but i still can't get it working. I
don;t want to use the copy and paste because the user will loss there
clipboard and if you try so save it, it could be 300mb as explain
above.

So could some one who got it working post there code up. The code i
have is:

Dim path As String = "C:\Visual Studio
Projects\DC\DMCRM\icons\AddTelephoneCall.ico"

Dim imgconv As ImageConverter
Dim img As System.Drawing.Image

img = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(path)
Dim a As stdole.IPictureDisp =
imgconv.ImageToIPicDisp(img)

.Picture = a

Public Class ImageConverter
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.AxHost

Public Sub New(ByVal pGUID As String)
MyBase.New(pGUID)
End Sub

Public Shared Function ImageToIPicDisp(ByVal value As
System.Drawing.Image) As stdole.IPictureDisp
Return
System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetIPictureDispFromPic ture(value)
End Function

Public Shared Function IPicDispToImage(ByVal value As
stdole.IPictureDisp) As System.Drawing.Image
Return
System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetPictureFromIPicture Disp(CType(value,
Object))
End Function
End Class


the code get a error on this line ' .Picture = a'

any help please

Donald

Here are a couple of VB style answers to your question and help your
quandry.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ce05022002.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...d=2488&sid=251

Regards
Thaddaeus.
"Thaddaeus Parker" wrote in message
...
I did some research on what you were trying to do. According to a thread I
found at ureader.com. Ken Slovak said that IPictureDisp constraint is that
the image must be a 16x16 256 color BMP. Other wise you might get the
error that you are experiencing.

If I were you I would convert your .ico to a .bmp and try to run the
program again. Or, go ahead and add the image to a resource file inside
your add-in and use a resource manager to pull the appropriate image out
of and then use the IPictureDisp code that you already have to render the
image on the commandbar button.

It's an idea, for what it's worth

Thaddaeus.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288771
"donald" wrote in message
oups.com...
I try very think in this topic but i still can't get it working. I
don;t want to use the copy and paste because the user will loss there
clipboard and if you try so save it, it could be 300mb as explain
above.

So could some one who got it working post there code up. The code i
have is:

Dim path As String = "C:\Visual Studio
Projects\DC\DMCRM\icons\AddTelephoneCall.ico"

Dim imgconv As ImageConverter
Dim img As System.Drawing.Image

img = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(path)
Dim a As stdole.IPictureDisp =
imgconv.ImageToIPicDisp(img)

.Picture = a

Public Class ImageConverter
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.AxHost

Public Sub New(ByVal pGUID As String)
MyBase.New(pGUID)
End Sub

Public Shared Function ImageToIPicDisp(ByVal value As
System.Drawing.Image) As stdole.IPictureDisp
Return
System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetIPictureDispFromPic ture(value)
End Function

Public Shared Function IPicDispToImage(ByVal value As
stdole.IPictureDisp) As System.Drawing.Image
Return
System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetPictureFromIPicture Disp(CType(value,
Object))
End Function
End Class


the code get a error on this line ' .Picture = a'

any help please

Donald