I have about 3000 images stored in a DB. I have a WinApp that is in operation that writes, read, and displays the images, so I know how to store the images in a DB table, and how to retrieve the images and display them on a Win Form.
For deployment reasons, I need to move to a Web App.
I cannot work out how to display the images directly from the DB and I do in the WinApp. I can see how to write the images I need to display to a folder and then bind these images to Image controls ImageURL property. But I want to avoid writing the images to a folder first before displaying them?
Is this possible? What do all the eCommerce people do?

Hi there,

What you need to do is create a separate ASPX page that retrieves the image from the database and returns in. You cannot mix your normal ASPX page with the image.

Then in your ASPX page, bind the image to the image page, like this:

ImageUrl="/ImageGenerator.aspx?ImageId=123"

You can substitute the 123 with the record ID from the db.

Search Google for BinaryWrite .NET and image and you'll find articles like this one:

http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/ASP.NET/R...--C---Part-II/

HtH,

Imar
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