Load/Retrieve Icons from database?

[Ajb2528]

Hi!

Does anyone know of a way to load and retrieve an icon (.ico) file to/from a SQL Server database? I found some code on the web that will load/retrieve bitmaps (.bmp) but this does not seem to work with icon (.ico) files

I need to load an icon file say fred.ico into a SQL Server 2005 database in one application and then retrieve it from another application and display it in a listview set up in detail mode.

I am using VB.Net 2005.

Any help will be appreciated!

Regards,

Alan

 

[TipGiver]

For images, i would save the name of that icon into the database. You can get it if you join a fixed path like "~/images/" with the string "fred.ico" that is retrieved from the database.