Create Thumbnail in VB.NET

RasterEdge provides rich thumbnail creation capabilities for those developers who want to create high quality thumbnail into their VB.NET applications:

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Support for high-quality thumbnail
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Colorize thumbnail background color
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Create Thumbnail

Here is a detailed VB.NET sample for creating high quality thumbnail with RasterEdge .NET Imaging SDK and Thumbnail Creator. (For C#.NET developers, please go to Create Thumbnail for C#.NET. Want to view Image and document in Winforms or Web applications, please go to Create Thumbnail in Winforms and Web Document Image Create Thumbnail.)

Start Visual Studio .NET (2005 or later version);
Begin a new project with programming language - VB.NET;
Add RasterEdge.DotNetImaging.dll & RasterEdge.DotNetImaging.Thumbnail.dll to your VB.NET applications;
Add the appropriate Imports directive:

Imports System.IO
Imports RasterEdge.Imaging
Imports RasterEdge.Imaging.Processing
Imports RasterEdge.Imaging.Thumbnail

Create a Thumbnail

Create thumbnail can be easily and simple with following VB.NET codes:

Public Function CreateThumbnail(ByVal ImageID As Integer, ByVal Width As Integer, ByVal Height As Integer) As Integer

Create a High Quality Thumbnail

Users may create high quality thumbnail with customized width & height following VB.NET codes:

Public Function CreateThumbnail(ByVal ImageID As Integer, ByVal Width As Integer, ByVal Height As Integer) As Integer

Create a High Quality Thumbnail with Specified Background Color

If you want to create high quality thumbnail with specified background color, copy following VB.NET codes:

Public Function CreateThumbnail(ByVal ImageID As Integer, ByVal Width As Integer, ByVal Height As Integer, ByVal 
BackColor As Integer) As Integer