displaying image in crystal report

[PPCC]

Have u worked on Crystal reports
How do i display a image from the database (Either image path or binary value data)on the crystal report.

tell me if u know.Thanks in advance.

Help expected

PPCC

[vbud]

Well this thread has not been solved yet and I'm having the same problem, does anybody has any clue on how to get this done?

All help appreciated, thanx.

[vbud]

I actually got this solved finally and I think it might be useful to post it. So here it goes:

In my table in SQL I have the path to an image that needs to be displayed in a crystal report document.

First of all, I created a new Dataset/XML schema(xsd) in VS.Net that maps the fields that I have in my table. This should be the normal procedure when creating a report I guess. Now, in this DataSet i've added an additional field that is not in the table and which is of type base64Binary :

<xs:element name="Image" type="xs:base64Binary" minOccurs="0" />

Now I designed my report based on this DataSet and included the "Image" field in the region where I want it to appear. In my case it was the report header.

Once this is done, in my VB.net coding, I retrieved the data that needs to be diplayed on the report from the database through a DataSet.
Then I used this code to add the extra field to hold the image:

Public Sub AddImageColumn(ByVal objDataTable As DataTable, ByVal strFieldName As String)
    Try
      'create the column to hold the binary image
      Dim objDataColumn As DataColumn = New DataColumn(strFieldName, Type.GetType("System.Byte[]"))
    objDataTable .Columns.Add(objDataColumn )
    Catch ex As Exception
      Throw New Exception(ex.Message)
    End Try
  End Sub
 
'*... and this one to load the image in the above added field:
 
  Public Sub LoadImage(ByVal objDataRow As DataRow, ByVal strImageField As String, ByVal FilePath As String)
    Try
      Dim fs As System.IO.FileStream = New System.IO.FileStream(FilePath, System.IO.FileMode.Open, System.IO.FileAccess.Read)
      Dim Image() As Byte = New Byte(fs.Length) {}
      fs.Read(Image, 0, CType(fs.Length, Integer))
      fs.Close()
    objDataRow (strImageField) = Image
    Catch ex As Exception
      Throw New Exception(ex.Message)
    End Try
  End Sub
 
'* then bind the report to the dataset using the SetDataSource method and there you should get it.

Actually I faced another issue, I tried to load an image of type wmf but it would not accept it and was raising some error so I was able to load a jpg image on the report without struggling any further. hope this helps for all those who have been trying to do this.