How to show image in a datagridview cell called from a URL stored in an SQL database

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2008 creating a Windows Form to display a datagrid with real estate information. The SQL database record contains a dozen fields of text which I have no problem displaying. My problem is one of the columns contains
a url which links to a picture on a remote third party server. I need to display a thumb nail picture on the grid row based on the stored url. When I edit the gridview column I see there is a "column type" setting and
in the dropdown is DataGridViewImageColumn. I don't see any URL setting where I can bind the sql field to. 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi ikeni,
I think you could do as below:
1.Set the ColumnType as “DataGridViewImageColumn”
2.For each row of the datagridview, and set the Value of datagridview cells like  “dataGridView1[2, 0].Value = Image.FromFile(@"\\1.168.1.1\C$\Users\Desktop\3.JPG")”
You could turn to the links below for more information:
setting an Image column in a datagrid view based on a value in the database c#
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/62f5b477-5311-4de5-bc18-fbd29bbfc9e2/setting-an-image-column-in-a-datagrid-view-based-on-a-value-in-the-database-c?forum=winformsdatacontrols
Check if file exists on remote server and various drive
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26432688/check-if-file-exists-on-remote-server-and-various-drive
If you have any further questions, please feel free to post in this forum.
Best Regards,
Edward
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