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Inserting an image file in a datagrid view column- how

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5 Jan 2006 9:05 PM
Bob
I looked at the sample in the msdn january 2005 - Introducing a new
datagrid, but the project downloaded failed to open.

Any one can point me to a bit of code on how to go and select an image that
will get put in the datagridview. The column is bound to a sql server 2005
image data field. I just need to know how to put the image in the column.

Any help appreciated.

Bob

Author
5 Jan 2006 9:33 PM
Greg Burns
Do you have a link to that Jan '05 article?  Having trouble finding it.

I found this in the Jan '06 issue... (see last Q&A)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/DevQA/default.aspx

Not sure it will help.

Greg


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"Bob" <bduf***@sgiims.com> wrote in message
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>I looked at the sample in the msdn january 2005 - Introducing a new
>datagrid, but the project downloaded failed to open.
>
> Any one can point me to a bit of code on how to go and select an image
> that will get put in the datagridview. The column is bound to a sql server
> 2005 image data field. I just need to know how to put the image in the
> column.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Bob
>
>
Author
5 Jan 2006 10:26 PM
Bob
HI greg, thanks for your reply.
the link is
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvsdev05/html/vs05a9.asp

I think I'm on the right track by doing the following
I added a ContectMenuStrip that I assigned to my image column in the
datagrid view
A click on the contextmenu strip item opens a file dialog that allows user
to find a bmp or jpg file (I,m not yet sure if I should limit it to bmp
only - that comes up with the reporting engine for printing later.
then there's the FileOK event of the dialog. I think that fires if you
selected a file and clicked OK.

I should then be able to open the selected file, I suspect that I would have
to open it to a stream reader and assign the stream to the value of the
selected cell.. Now that becomes the question, how to do that bit of code.

May be there's a simpler way. After all this is supposed to be RAD
development isn't it ;-)

Thanks for your help
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"Greg Burns" <bluebunny@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> Do you have a link to that Jan '05 article?  Having trouble finding it.
>
> I found this in the Jan '06 issue... (see last Q&A)
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/DevQA/default.aspx
>
> Not sure it will help.
>
> Greg
>
>
> "Bob" <bduf***@sgiims.com> wrote in message
> news:eXDnFvjEGHA.376@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>I looked at the sample in the msdn january 2005 - Introducing a new
>>datagrid, but the project downloaded failed to open.
>>
>> Any one can point me to a bit of code on how to go and select an image
>> that will get put in the datagridview. The column is bound to a sql
>> server 2005 image data field. I just need to know how to put the image in
>> the column.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>
>