Mark,
before VFP 9.0 beta you could see the image with a Oleboundcontrol,
now in VFP 9.0 beta you can use an Image object in the form to do the same.
You just have to refresh it when you get it in the CA when you recover it from a RDBMS

something like this to refresh...

SELECT("CA_Pubs_info")
LOCAL x
x = CA_Pubs_info.LOGO
THISFORM.Image1.PictureVal = x
THISFORM.REFRESH

In this case CA_Pubs_info is the CursorAdapter from the Pub_info table in SQL server Pubs database.

PS: in CA: MapBinary = .T. to work !

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Peter

>Selecting the data from the MSDE Northwind database, you get a BLOB field with the employee photo. This was a BMP file. STRTOFILE() is not really working to get this back to a BMP file. How can I use the contents of this BLOB field to display the picture in a VFP form? What ActiveX control do I use for the BMP? TIA!