How To Generate a Thumbnail Image Of a Diagram

29 Feb 2016 / 1 minute to read

To display a thumbnail image of the diagram, follow the below given steps.

  1. Generate a Bitmap image of the diagram.
  2. Use the GetThumbnailImage method of the Image class to generate a thumbnail, and set it as the image of the picture box in which you want to display the thumbnail.

The following code illustrates this.

public bool ThumbnailCallback()

{

return false;

}

//Generate Thumbnail and set it to be image of the PictureBox

Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort myCallback = new Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort(ThumbnailCallback); 

this.pictureBox1.Image = (Bitmap) diagramimage.GetThumbnailImage(150,75,myCallback, IntPtr.Zero);
Public Function ThumbnailCallback() As Boolean

Return False

End Function

'Generate Thumbnail and set it to be image of the PictureBox

Dim myCallback As Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort = New Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort(ThumbnailCallback)

Me.pictureBox1.Image = CType(diagramimage.GetThumbnailImage(150,75,myCallback, IntPtr.Zero), Bitmap)