How to display image from database to datagridview

Question

Hi friends.i want to display image from sql to datagrid cell.

First of all it's my table desgin in sql.

Id          himage(Data type :Image)

1           <Binary Data>

2           <Binary Data>

My problem is that bydefault datagridview column type=DataGridViewTextBoxColumn

i want to change it in DataGridViewImageColumn.Coding which i am using is that

coding......

SqlDataAdapter adp = new SqlDataAdapter("select himag from tbmainholiday where hid=7", con);

            DataSet ds = new DataSet();

            adp.Fill(ds);

            byte [] data=new byte[0];

            data =(byte[])(ds.Tables[0].Rows[0][0]);

            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(data);

            DataGridViewImageCell img = new DataGridViewImageCell();

I don't know further codind to complete this job.

Please privide help me on this.

Thanks & Regards

Randeep Chuahan.

 

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Randeep Chuahan

Answer 1

 DataGridViewImageCell img = new DataGridViewImageCell();
 img .Image =Image.FromStream(ms);
    img .Name = "Image";
    yourdatagridview.Columns.add( img);

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Answer 2

Hi Randeep,

Thanks for your post.

The following is how we retrieve images from database. Hope this can help you.

We can write a binary large object (BLOB) to a database as either binary or character data, depending on the type of field at the data source. BLOB is a generic term that refers to the text, ntext, and image data types, which typically contain documents and pictures.

To write a BLOB value to the database, issue the appropriate INSERT or UPDATE statement and pass the BLOB value as an input parameter. If the BLOB is stored as text, such as a SQL Server text field, we can pass the BLOB as a string parameter. If the BLOB is stored in binary format, such as a SQL Server image field, we can pass an array of type byte as a binary parameter.

The following code example adds employee information to the Employees table in the Northwind database. A photo of the employee is read from a file and added to the Photo field in the table, which is an image field.

Codes:

        public static void AddEmployee(string lastName,string firstName,string title,

            DateTime hireDate,int reportsTo,string photoFilePath,string connectionString)

        {

            byte[] photo = GetPhoto(photoFilePath);

 

            using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(

              connectionString))

            {

                SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(

                  "INSERT INTO Employees (LastName, FirstName, " +

                  "Title, HireDate, ReportsTo, Photo) " +

                  "Values(@LastName, @FirstName, @Title, " +

                  "@HireDate, @ReportsTo, @Photo)", connection);

 

                command.Parameters.Add("@LastName",

                   SqlDbType.NVarChar, 20).Value = lastName;

                command.Parameters.Add("@FirstName",

                    SqlDbType.NVarChar, 10).Value = firstName;

                command.Parameters.Add("@Title",

                    SqlDbType.NVarChar, 30).Value = title;

                command.Parameters.Add("@HireDate",

                     SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = hireDate;

                command.Parameters.Add("@ReportsTo",

                    SqlDbType.Int).Value = reportsTo;

 

                command.Parameters.Add("@Photo",

                    SqlDbType.Image, photo.Length).Value = photo;

 

                connection.Open();

                command.ExecuteNonQuery();

            }

        }

 

        public static byte[] GetPhoto(string filePath)

        {

            FileStream stream = new FileStream(

                filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

            BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(stream);

 

            byte[] photo = reader.ReadBytes((int)stream.Length);

 

            reader.Close();

            stream.Close();

 

            return photo;

        }

 

 

Have  a nice day,

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