Does anybody know how to make the picture box use a picture from a web location?

: Does anybody know how to make the picture box use a picture from a web location?
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Here is a reusable function you can use ...

Function LoadPictureBoxFromWeb(ByVal surface As PictureBox, ByVal url As String) As Boolean
    If surface Is Nothing Then
        Return False
    End If

    Try
        Dim request As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(url)
        Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()

        surface.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.AutoSize
        surface.Image = Image.FromStream(response.GetResponseStream)
    Catch
        Return False
    End Try

    Return True
End Function

This assumes you have these namespaces imported ...

Imports System.Net
Imports System.Windows.Forms

You may or may not have import the System.Drawing namespace.

Using the function is easy ...

Dim url As String  = "http://www.someaddress.com/image.jpg"

Call LoadPictureBoxFromWeb(PictureBox1, url)

Of course there is alot more room to make this more robust, but this should be a good starting point.