Question

Sorry for troubling. Im trying to display the selected fields in a asp.net gridview. i can display everything except the “product_img” where i should display the relevant picture in the gridview.

The problem is in gridview when i attached image url of image control to code-'<%#"InsertProd.aspx.cs?path" %>' is not working as it’s giving me null images/broken image link.

is my method of binding the path upon dr.read to the imageURL in gridview wrong??
i have edited my code behind page as below and design aspx page as bottom.

the code for designer page is located below underneath,upon scroll down. thank you.

    protected void gvShowInsert_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT product_cakeName, product_price,      
        product_qty,product_desc,product_img FROM Tbl_Products", conn);

        conn.Open();

        SqlDataReader dr;
        dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
        if(dr.Read())
        {
           //Context.Response.BinaryWrite((byte[])dr[dr.GetOrdinal("product_img")]);


          byte[] path = (byte[])dr["product_img"]; //read the path of image

        }//imageControl.ImageUrl = path; //set the path to image control


        gvShowInsert.DataSource = dr;
        gvShowInsert.DataBind();
        dr.Close();
        conn.Close();
    }

this is my design aspx:

<Columns>
   <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="cake-name">
       <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:Label ID="lblHeaderName"   
            runat="server"Text='<%#Eval("product_cakeName") %>'></asp:Label>    
       </ItemTemplate>
  </asp:TemplateField>
 <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="price">
   <ItemTemplate>
   <asp:Label ID="lblHeaderPrice" runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("product_price")  
           %>'></asp:Label>    
    </ItemTemplate>
 </asp:TemplateField>
 <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="qty">
 <ItemTemplate>
 <asp:Label ID="lblHeaderQty" runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("product_qty") %>'></asp:Label>    
 </ItemTemplate>
 </asp:TemplateField>
 <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="desc">
 <ItemTemplate>
 <asp:Label ID="lblHeaderDesc" runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("product_desc") %>'>
 </asp:Label>    
 </ItemTemplate>
 </asp:TemplateField>
 <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="img">
 <ItemTemplate>
<asp:Image ID="imageControl" runat="server" ImageUrl='<%#"InsertProd.aspx.cs?path" %>' >
</asp:Image>    
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>

Answer 1

If you have the image path, or image filename, stored in the database, why not just assign it like you do the values for the other controls? Like this:

If your database stores the entire path, do this:

<asp:Image ID="imageControl" runat="server" ImageUrl='<%# Eval("product_img") %>'></asp:Image>

If your database only has the filename, do this:

<asp:Image ID="imageControl" runat="server" ImageUrl='<%# String.Format("~/path/to/image/" + Eval("product_img")) %>'></asp:Image>

Good Luck!