The image control is a lightweight version of the picture box control . Unlike the picture box control , the image control cannot act as a container for other objects. It has less properties than the picture box and is not so versatile but if all you want to do is to display an image on a form then it is ideal . The image control also uses less memory than a picture box.

The image control can display Bitmaps (.bmp) , icons (.ico) , Jpeg's (.JPG) , Gif's (.GIF) and metafiles (.wmf).

Properties

Not too many properties to worry about here , but here is a quick rundown of the most important ones in no particular order.

Name : this is the name that the programmer uses , the prefix is img.
Picture : you add a graphic by setting this property.
Stretch : when set to True the picture resizes with the control and when set to False the control resizes to the size of the picture inside it.
Height , Width : the size of the control .
BorderStyle : the type of border that surrounds the image , choose from 0 - none (default) or 1 - fixed single
Visible : determines whether the object is visible or hidden
Appearance : this determines whether or not an object is displayed with 3d effects or not at run-time

Events

The common events that you will use will be the Click and DragDrop events .

Methods

The methods that you may use could be Move to physically move the Image control to give a sense of simple animation , Refresh to refresh the image in the control  .