Hi there

I got problem to view a database image with GRIDVIEW and DETAILSVIEW Controls. I using particullarly Northwind database from emaployees table to reteive the photos (Photot Field) but it never worked, it always gives me red x in the photo frame when i browse it. The way i did i dropped both controls, bind them with sqldatasource add column with imgfield which should show the database image.i tried it with many setting with no luck i would really appreciated if u Could offer me a help regarding this issue. (URGENT PLS)



Best Regards

Eric

The Northwind database and urgency in the same post. Hmmmm. Interesting.

If I am not mistaken the Northwind stores the images as BLOBs, not as paths to the images. So, to make this wok, you'll need a separate page that displays the image.

E.g. <img src="/ShowImage.aspx?Id=123" /> points to ShowImage.aspx and passes it an ID of an employee. That page should then access the database, get the BLOB from the database and write out the image.

Search Google for "store image "SQL Server" retrieve" and you'll get plenty of useful hits.

HtH,

Imar
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