Out of memory exception while loading images

Question

I am using the following piece of code to load images as thumbnails to a FlowLayoutPanel control. Unfortunately i get an OutOfMemory exception.

As you already guess the memory leak is found at line

 Pedit.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(fs)

So how could i optimize the following code?

 Private Sub LoadImagesCommon(ByVal FlowPanel As FlowLayoutPanel, ByVal fi As FileInfo)
        Pedit = New DevExpress.XtraEditors.PictureEdit
        Pedit.Width = txtIconsWidth.EditValue
        Pedit.Height = Pedit.Width / (4 / 3)
        Dim fs As System.IO.FileStream
        fs = New System.IO.FileStream(fi.FullName, IO.FileMode.Open, IO.FileAccess.Read)
        Pedit.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(fs)
        fs.Close()
        fs.Dispose()
        Pedit.Properties.SizeMode = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.PictureSizeMode.Zoom

        If FlowPanel Is flowR Then
            AddHandler Pedit.MouseClick, AddressOf Pedit_MouseClick
            AddHandler Pedit.MouseEnter, AddressOf Pedit_MouseEnter
            AddHandler Pedit.MouseLeave, AddressOf Pedit_MouseLeave
        End If

        FlowPanel.Controls.Add(Pedit)
    End Sub

Update: The problem occurs while loading a number of images (3264x2448px at 300dpi - each image is about 3Mb's)

Solution

Documentation for Image.FromFile (which is related to your FromStream) says that it will throw OutOfMemoryException if the file is not a valid image format or if GDI+ doesn't support the pixel format. Is it possible you're trying to load an unsupported image type?

Also, documentation for Image.FromStream says that you have to keep the stream open for the lifetime of the image, so even if your code loaded the image you'd probably get an error because you're closing the file while the image is still active. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/93z9ee4x.aspx.