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display images in a datagridview column on a windows form

How do I display different images in a datagrid view. I have a windows form which has an image column called Indicator
I have a stored procedure which returns the image to display in a column called erp_image.

This column has the path to the image , example Images\red,gif
Under my root windows app I have folder called images, under which I have the respective images.
I am binding a dataset to the datagrid programmatically
example
ds = DBManager.getList(txtFromCal, txtToCal, txtStatus, txtClient, txtFilter);
dgView.DataSource = ds;
dgView.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
dgView.DataMember = "ERP";
Status.DataPropertyName = "ERP_STATUS";
Source.DataPropertyName = "ERP_SOURCE";
Indicator.DataPropertyName = "ERP_IMAGE";

shahprabal

Basically you would need to add the images to an image column in your dataset's datatable.
Check out :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridviewimagecolumn(VS.80).aspx

countrymeister

ASKER

shahprabal,

The image column has to display different images based on the value of ERP_IMAGE.

I do have an image column but I need to bind an image at runtime
i have tried the following code and it works with an ImageList, but I loose the image when I sort on any column in the grid
DataGridViewCell valueCell = null;
DataGridViewImageCell displayCell = null;
for (int row = 0; row < dgView.Rows.Count; row++)
{
valueCell = dgView[IndicatorImage.Index, row];
displayCell = (DataGridViewImageCell)dgView[Indicator.Index, row];
string n = (string)valueCell.Value;
//displayCell.Value = imageListIndicator.Images[n];
if (n == "~/images/blueofms.gif")
displayCell.Value = imageListIndicator.Images[0];
else if (n == "~/images/greenofms.gif")
displayCell.Value = imageListIndicator.Images[1];
else if (n == "~/images/redofms.gif")
displayCell.Value = imageListIndicator.Images[2];
}

udhayakumard

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=35521

countrymeister

ASKER

I have the same problem where i loose the images and it displays a red x, when i sort on any grid column.

shahprabal

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t19572-vbnetimagelist-loses-images-when-the-image-size-property-is-changed.html

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