Out of memory exception while loading images

Question

I am using the following piece of code to load images as thumbnails to a FlowLayoutPanel control. Unfortunately i get an OutOfMemory exception.

As you already guess

Answer 1

You can solve this in a few steps:

• to get free from the File-dependency, you have to copy the images. By really drawing it to a new Bitmap, you can't just copy it.
• since you want thumbnails, and your source-bitmaps are rather large, combine this with shrinking the images.