How can I set the image property of a picturebox object at run time?
I have added to images (jpg) to my solution both with build action Embedded Resource, and I want to switch at run time which image is displayed. I can not use the ImageList because the image size exceeds 256x256 and is not the same for both pictures. (I might want to include more pictures in the future).

I also know that I can use the following code:

this.myPictureBox.Image = new Bitmap("C:\\myfolder\\myImage.jpg");

but if I use that code there better be an image at that location and that is not what I want. I want to embedd the image in the exe and then populate the image property of the picture box with the embedded images at runtime.

I thought a little more about this problem and I think I want to create an array of bitmaps and then load all the images into the bitmap array then I can use the following code to change the picturebox image property at runtime:

private void ChangeImage(int ImgIndex)
{
  this.myPictureBox.Image = this.myBitmapArray[ImgIndex];
}

Well the problem still remains to find a way to load an image into a bitmap object. It is very easy to do if I specify the path and the filename but again that is not something I want to do.

I did find some information using the System.Reflection.Assembly class, but I could not quite figure out how to load the resource that is embedded.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Einar