>Thanks for the info...now I have a followup problem. This worked great using a blob field in FoxPro. But it needs some tweeking to work with SQL Server.
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>I've created an image field on the form and I'm using SQL views to the SQL Server Table, in the refresh event I have the following code:
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>THISFORM.pageframe1.contact.imgContact_Picture.PictureVal = ;
>contact.contact_picture && Where contact.contact_picture is field in the view.
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>I get an error that this is not allowed with General Fields. Now I didn't create a General Field, but an Image field in SQL Server. And I used the following syntax to create the view:
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> CREATE SQL VIEW someview REMOTE ;
> CONNECTION someconnection SHARED ;
> AS SELECT * from sometable
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>So it seems as if VFP interprets the Image Field as a general field when it creates the view. BTW, I first tried using just a "text" (Memo) field and it worked fine, except it blew up on some pictures because of the contents of the picture (it probably had inbedded CHR(0) or something, so that's why I decided I needed to change to an image-type field.
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>Ideas anyone?
>
>Thanks. Bob

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