Creating Bound Images

Bound images are images stored in database fields. To display these images in your reports, add a field to the report and set its Picture property to a string containing the name of the column where the image is stored.

To add bound image fields to your report using the C1ReportDesigner:

In Design mode of the C1ReportDesigner, click the drop-down in the Picture button located in the Fields group of the Insert tab. This shows a menu with all binary fields in the current data source.
Select the field you want to add to the report.

To add bound image fields to your report using code:

If the field "Photo" in the database contains embedded OLE objects or raw image streams, and the report contains a field called "fEmployeePhoto", then the following code would display the employee photo in the field:

To write code in Visual Basic

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fEmployeePhoto.Picture = "Photo"

To write code in C#

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fEmployeePhoto.Picture = "Photo";

Note: For the complete report, see report "04: Bound Images" in the CommonTasks.xml report definition file, which is available in the ComponentOne Samples folder.