Convert String to System.Drawing.Image

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Private Sub impimg_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles impimg.Click
        Dim fileimg As New OpenFileDialog
        fileimg.Filter = "Bitmap Images (*.bmp)|*.bmp"
        fileimg.Title = "Open Icon File"
        fileimg.InitialDirectory = "C:\"
        DialogResult = fileimg.ShowDialog
        If DialogResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
            imglabel.Text = fileimg.FileName
            finalinp.imgpic.Image = fileimg.FileName
        End If
    End Sub
 
Here
 
            finalinp.imgpic.Image = fileimg.FileName

is where I get the trouble I tried

Dim imgz As System.Drawing.Image = fileimg.FileName

but it didn't work.

[!NoItAll]

Fileimg.filename returns a string (which you appear to know), but that string is not the image, rather it is a string such as "myicon.ico" and cannot be converted to the image you want.
Instead try the fromfile method of the system.drawing.image class.

Private Sub impimg_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles impimg.Click
 
        Dim myImage as System.drawing.image
 
        Dim fileimg As New OpenFileDialog
        fileimg.Filter = "Bitmap Images (*.bmp)|*.bmp"
        fileimg.Title = "Open Icon File"
        fileimg.InitialDirectory = "C:\"
        DialogResult = fileimg.ShowDialog
 
        If DialogResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
            imglabel.Text = fileimg.FileName
            MyImage = Image.fromfile(fileimg.FileName)
        End If
 
 
End Sub
 

Now that you have an image (MyImage) you can do something useful with it such as

Picturebox1.Image = MyImage

...and see the image. You can also place the imgLabel below the image so you can see the filename.