I've got a black image control on my webform and a dropdownlistbox which gives a list of jpg files to choose from. I step threw it and verify the correct path is being sent to Image1.ImageURL but no picture shows up. I can't find any other properties to set on the Image control. Also, why do I have to make pathx static? When it was private (or public) it got set to null when assigning it to target string.