Hi,

Im playing with this concept at the moment and was hoping to design an image
retreival system which would allow me to place images into the web page "
Where I want them", but draw them from the SQL Database.

I know how to get the image from the sql server, and I know one way of
writing the image to the page using BinaryWrite method of the reponse
object.

However, once you use BinaryWrite, it seems to obliterate eveything else.
What I need is to be able to render the page as I would normally do, but not
rely on images stored as files on a web server, or at least to generate the
URI' to them on the fly somehow. It seems a shame that when you getrecords
which you need to display pictures from that you have to go get them all
again jsut for the picture. An exampleof this would be a personell record, I
want to display the details about the person along with a pic, the pic is
retreived, but I can render the pic.

I might add here, that I am creating html content inside a aspx form by
using an htmlwriter object , this allows me to publish articles directly
fromt he database using custom formatting.

However, I am aware that the <img tag's src attribute seems to be limited to
either a URL which is a real URI or a more limited data:image//gid;base64 in
line type thing.

I think the asnwer is that you realistically cant do this in-line, and need
to store the images on disk.

Any responses which can confirm this or offer an alternative would be most
useful.

Thanks