displaying the map preview image?

[grimdoomer]

Im currently working on a Halo 2, Halo 3 app and I want to display the map preview image some where. The problem is I am having trouble reading the image. I have looked at preys menu menu menu source but he reads things a lot diffrent then i do makeing it very hard to emulate them procedure. I can translate between C3 and VB but im working with VB, I want to realy know everything i possible can about VB befor i go tp C#, then C++. But any way I need some help
Here is what I have so far,

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Public Sub LoadMapImage()

            'We need our Binary Reader
            Dim BR As New BinaryReader(New FileStream(MapLocation, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))

            'Go to the image place and load our pics
            Dim plus As Integer = IIf(MapFilter = 0, 15812, 15820)
            MapSlotSize = IIf(MapFilter = 0, 2896, 3172)
            BR.BaseStream.Position = H2Tag(1).MetaOffset + plus

            Slots = BR.ReadInt32()
            SlotOffset = BR.ReadInt32() - MapSecondaryMagic

        End Sub

After that I am kinda stuck because of how prey loads map info its very diffrent then how my app does and i tryed to change some variables but i ended up with a huge problem with my magics. So any way I need a little help of loading these images.

[Supermodder911]

I could help but not VB srry.

[grimdoomer]

Well I can read eather two and know what your talking about. If its in C3 Ill just do a quick translation.

[Prey]

C3 = C# ?..

Anyway, you can just run the parts of my source that you require through this, then you should have what you need.

[grimdoomer]

yea i did helped a lot, I now know my problem Im calculating the magics wrong, once I fix it I should be able to get the map image to load.