Image from website

[cpopham]

I am trying to generate an image from a url and load it into a picturebox, but I keep getting an invalid parameter error on my URL. I am attempting to use google maps and had an entire map path, but dropped it down to just the maps URL and still getting the error. Can someone let me know what is wrong with my code:

 

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

       'LoadWebImageToPictureBox(PictureBox1, "http://maps.google.com/?q=113+gunn+road" & Chr(44) & "+centerville" & Chr(44) & "+ga" & Chr(44) & "+31028&z=2&t=h")
       Try
           Dim req As Net.HttpWebRequest = DirectCast(Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("http://maps.google.com/?q=1113+watson+blvd,+warner+robins,+ga,+31028&z=2&t=h"), Net.HttpWebRequest)
           Dim res As Net.HttpWebResponse = DirectCast(req.GetResponse, Net.HttpWebResponse)

           Dim img As Image = Image.FromStream(res.GetResponseStream)

           res.Close()

           PictureBox1.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.AutoSize
           PictureBox1.Image = img
       Catch ex As Exception
           MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
       End Try
       PictureBox1.Image = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(New IO.MemoryStream(New System.Net.WebClient().DownloadData("http://www.google.com/")))

   End Sub

[Arch4ngel]

Dont know what you are trying to do... but you are trying to convert an HTTP stream into a picture. The link that you are building is a link to an HTML page. Not a picture.

 

You might take a look through the API

http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

[cpopham]

I looked at that, but I am wanting to put the map in a picturebox on a winform, not an asp page, so that does not really help because it is for a web page. I had read a couple of articles that said you can convert the webpage to a bitmap and display it that way using a picturebox which is what I was attempting to do.

 

Chester