reading picture to a Picture box from a database

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am trying to read picture from a picture field in a database so that it can appear on the Picture box

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Do While dr.Read
    Me.phoneTextBox.Text = dr("Phone")
    Me.emailTextBox.Text = dr("Email")
      
    Me.PictureBox1.Image = dr("Picture")     ' error line
 Loop

on error line it tell me (Unable to cast object of type 'System.Byte[]' to type 'System.Drawing.Image')

please help me out

Posted 6-Aug-11 12:44pm

kabiru ajibosin

Updated 6-Aug-11 18:02pm

walterhevedeich

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Christian Graus · Answer 1 · 2011-08-06T12:54:00

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The error means what it says. Did you consider doing some work instead of guessing and asking us to do your work for you ?

The bytes represent an image, but they are not yet an image. You can construct an image using a stream of bytes, which is what this data is. Then you can assign that Image to your picture box.

Posted 6-Aug-11 12:54pm

Christian Graus

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kabiru ajibosin 6-Aug-11 19:13pm

i dnt knw hw to use streams. please give me a sample code related to the one above so i can read the file. please

Christian Graus 7-Aug-11 0:15am

Did you consider trying google ? Or buying a book ?