You're need to. It's not hard - just see the DataGrid.TableStyles property in the .NET Framework SDK documentation. If you don't, you can't. The other reply is correct in what you must do. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

as i understood that u ve image and u want to open it from stream file... 1-u cant use Image class as it is abstract one, so u cant define object from it 2-u use Bitmap class to open ur image //example: dont forget to use (Using System.Drawing) Bitmap myimage=new Bitmap(filestream,true); //constructor use true to make error correction..hope it works