Display an image from an image server via it's url

Question

Hello Community,

   I have a form which is a "product manager". The purpose of this form is to add or update products in a database which are displayed on a ecommerce website. I would like to have the image of each product display in a "picture box" on the form as I click through each product using the form. The thumbnail images for every product is stored on an "image server" in a folder "product_images".

   In the database, their is a table named "products" which has several fields for each product information, including a field to add the image url to the image server. How could I code the picture box or use the fields url to display the image associated to each record in the form (database)?

   I am actually using Visual Studio 2008.

 

Thanks to anyone who can assist me.

Answer 1

Use the load method of the picturebox once your have the url of the image .

PictureBox1.Load("http://SomeWebSite/images/SomeImage.jpg")

Answer 2

Hello bdbodger,

Thank you for your response. I apologies for my limited knowledge on this. The load method looks like it would have to have the URL hard coded for a particular image. Would you know how I could automate the code in the ( ) to pull the URL from the image URL field in the database table? This would allow the pictureBox1 to display the image associated with the current record displayed and the image change as each new record is displayed.

 

Thanks for all your help.

Answer 3

If you can retrive the URL from the database you can pass it to the load function . I don't know anything about an image server so I can't help in that regard but if the database field has a reference to an image in a directory on a server then you should be able to pass that URL to the load function . If any function returns a path to an image then you can use that the same way . You pass the load function a string that is the path or URL to an image .

Answer 4

Hello bdBodger,

We found the right code to make this work. I'm posting the code so hopefully this thread will help someone else someday.

Thank you for you rapid responses.

 

Code:

Sub thumbnail(ByVal prod As String)PictureBox2.Load

("http://www.extremesportsnutritioncenter.com/images/products/thumbnail/" + prod + ".jpg")

End Sub

 

Private Sub Prod_stock_codeTextBox_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Prod_stock_codeTextBox.TextChanged

Try

thumbnail(Prod_stock_codeTextBox.Text)

Catch ex As Exception

PictureBox2.Load("")

Return

End Try

End Sub

Answer 5

I see glad you have it but too bad I didn't get any credit for my help :-(  I see you marked your own post . I didn't even get so much as a helpful credit . Oh well if you have any more questions I guess somebody might still help you .

Answer 6

I'm new with this forums, I will see if I can change that, I didn't realize that you only get credit if you are marked as such, sorry.

Answer 7

Ok, I changed the "mark as answer", I truely apologies for not knowing how the rating system works. I do appriciate all your help though.

Answer 8

No problem . You can also mark more than one post as the answer if more than one person has given a correct answer . So you could have left your post marked .