Add common dialog control tool 6.0 from component Drag it to your form interface Draw a Picture box Name it at the property bar as dialog1 create a text box and name the text box as txtpicture Create a command botton Double click on the command botton here is the code: private sub command1_click() dialog1.showopen txtpicture.text = dialog1.FileName Picture1.picture = Loadpicture (txtpicture.text) end sub Try it and find it real..........