I am trying to load an image from a physical location in the disk

and trying to save it to the disk using graphics object,

When i do that I face an error

"A generic error occurred in GDI+. "

here is the code ::

{

Image img = new Bitmap(800, 800, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);

Image.FromFile(@"C:\Documents and Settings\mysettings\Desktop\seethis.tif");

string p =z + "\\"+ itemname ;

Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(img);

Directory.CreateDirectory(p);

img.Save(p, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Tiff);

I want to save the seethis.tif file to another location in the disk programatically.

The problem is that you don't assign the Image.FromFile(...) to anything. You create a new Image, you call Image.FromFile(..) without assigning the result to an Image variable. Then you call Graphics.FromImage(img) and start painting that img on itself. So what you currently are doing is drawing img to img. This cannot be done and probably throws the generic GDI+ error.

You can just do:

Image img= Image.FromFile(...);

string p =z + "\\"+ itemname ;

Directory.CreateDirectory(p);

image.Save(p, ...);

And that is it. No graphics are needed.

Could you please provide more details on exception you receive?

If you can't I suggest you to use Managed Debugging Assistants in order to retrieve more details:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d21c150d(VS.80).aspx

The problem is that you don't assign the Image.FromFile(...) to anything. You create a new Image, you call Image.FromFile(..) without assigning the result to an Image variable. Then you call Graphics.FromImage(img) and start painting that img on itself. So what you currently are doing is drawing img to img. This cannot be done and probably throws the generic GDI+ error.

You can just do:

Image img= Image.FromFile(...);

string p =z + "\\"+ itemname ;

Directory.CreateDirectory(p);

image.Save(p, ...);

And that is it. No graphics are needed.

Thanks for your response,

It is of great help to me.