Thanks peter,

got this working now and appreciate your help thankyou

is there a way to pass the value to the next page without using a query string as we do not wish this querry string to be visible in the followup url address.???

Yes, you could use a session value. But then you have to change your approach back to the original way. You'll need to use a postback button (imagebutton). When that image button is clicked and the postback handler runs, you save the image path to a session value and then redirect to the image view page which pulls the image path from the session value. This seems accessive and entails an extra page round trip just to move the image path from the querystring to the session. But that's how you could do it.

-Peter

Nawski
The question you were asking for, which the answer is not posted anywhere on the web. Because it is so lack of support I decided to copy and paste this part from my web-blog.

Ok now what is your question again? …You want to use ImageButton and pass the parameter to new page. And Davis suggested you change to HyperLink tag. Well, to me both ways are working just fine but each of them has it own advantage.

Now let cut to the core: Here is the general format for <asp:ImageButton> tag

<SCRIPT Runat="Server">

Sub getNewUrl (Src As Object, Args As ImageClickEventArgs)
    â€˜store value parameter
  Dim strOrderNumber as string = Args.CommandArgument.toString
    â€˜pass the parameter to new asp Page.
    Response.redirect(“nextaspx.aspx?orderId=” & strOrderNum)
End Sub

</SCRIPT>

<asp:ImageButton OnClick="Image_Click" Runat="Server"
  ImageUrl=<img src='<%# Container.DataItem("ImagePath") %>'
  CommandName="getNewUrl"
  CommandArgument='<%# Eval("order_number") %>’
  ImageAlign="AbsMiddle"/>

Happy coding.
Terry