VB Display Photo using URL from Database

Rich57 · May 29th, 2008, 11:32 AM

I have a DetailsView control displaying fields from my Walks database. A table in the database contains the URL of an online photo, together with dimensions and file size. The source code for the field is:

Code:

<asp:boundfield DataField="ImageURL" HeaderText="Group Photo"
HtmlEncode="True" NullDisplayText="Sorry, no photo available." />

At the moment, the URL is displayed as text. How can I persuade the field to evaluate the string and fetch the photo?

Richard
Rugeley, UK
WinXP Pro SP2
VBW Express + SQL Server 2005 Express

angshujit · May 30th, 2008, 02:25 AM

Hi,
Use ImageField - <asp:ImageField DataImageUrlField="ImageURL"...

Angshujit

Rich57 · May 30th, 2008, 05:31 AM

Thanks for your suggestion - I added the ImageField control.

There was one other lesson for me - to change the URLs I had previously stored for my online photos at Flickr. Having done that they now display in the DetailsView.

Richard
Rugeley, UK
WinXP Pro SP2
VBW Express + SQL Server 2005 Express