Picturebox from the Internet

Public Function webDownloadImage(ByVal Url As String, Optional ByVal saveFile As Boolean = False,
                                 Optional ByVal location As String = "C:\") As Image

        Dim webClient As New System.Net.WebClient

        Dim bytes() As Byte = webClient.DownloadData(Url)

        Dim stream As New IO.MemoryStream(bytes)

        If saveFile Then My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllBytes(location, bytes, False)

        Return New System.Drawing.Bitmap(stream)

   End Function

sub Load()  

   PictureBox1.Image = webDownloadImage("http://www.somewebsite.com/image.jpg", True, "C:\temp.jpg")

end sub

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