I have an asp.net application that let user retrieve some infomation from a database and display a corresponding image stored on a folder somewhere in my pc.
The user enters a checkno and the application display records from db and an image. So far am able to get the full path of that image but i do not know how to pass that path to an image control at runtime. I didnt want to use '~\....' to specify image url at design time because my images can reside somewhere on pc or server etc. Can somebody help.

hi,

you can do it at runtime like :

image1.imageurl="fullpath"

thats it.

Thanks imjigu2001 for the reply.
I tried that but it didnt display any image. I even tried to put the path at design time it didint work. Heres the code;

Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Image1.ImageUrl = "C:\Documents and Settings\Mangulu\My Documents\coseke logo.jpeg"
End Sub

Hmm. That is a bad practice to have an image link like that. That may very well be where the image resides on your machine but it really needs to be placed in the folder where your website resides because, if you were to purchase hosting from someone, that is not where the image will reside at all.

consider this directory structure

-WebFolder
-----Images
----------coseke logo.jpeg
-----YourPage.aspx

If your image control resides on YourPage.aspx the ImageURL could be any of the following:
./Images/coseke logo.jpeg
Images/coseke logo.jpeg <--This would only work if you were actually working in a domain and not off of localhost
~/Images/coseke logo.jpeg

hth.

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Thanks dparsons for the useful infomation. I'll try to follow that practise. cheers

It is worth noting that that the tildea character (~) will only work on controls that have the attribute runat="server".

This isn't a problem in your situation since you are using an image control but this will bomb if you try to use a standard HTML img tag.

-Doug

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As Doug suggests, you need to be careful where you try to use the ~ character.

Many server controls will process that character appropriately. But when you need to use a app root relative path in a non server control you can still process it manually. For example:

string correctUrl;
correctUrl = ResolveUrl("~/images/someimage.jpg");

You can now use that resolved url in plain HTML or in a control that may not process the ~ itself.

-Peter
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if my images are on the server and my application is on the same server how would i do it.(load images on my page) i.e the codes...

I don't understand. Did my suggestions not work? What have you tried?

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Hi guys

Here is some useful resources about how load images dynamically on image control

Check this link

https://www.mindstick.com/Articles/4...in-asp-dot-net