Free file locked by new Bitmap(filePath)

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Here is my approach to opening an image without locking the file…

public static Image FromFile(string path)
{
    var bytes = File.ReadAllBytes(path);
    var ms = new MemoryStream(bytes);
    var img = Image.FromStream(ms);
    return img;
}

UPDATE: I did some perf tests to see which method was the fastest. I compared it to @net_progs “copy from bitmap” answer (which seems to be the closest to correct, though does have some issues). I loaded the image 10000 times for each method and calculated the average time per image. Here are the results:

Loading from bytes: ~0.26 ms per image.
Copying from bitmap: ~0.50 ms per image.

The results seem to make sense since you have to create the image twice using the copy from bitmap method.

UPDATE:
if you need a BitMap you can do:

return (Bitmap)Image.FromStream(ms);

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