You can theoretically draw the image with transparency because you can use the ImageAttributes class to draw an image with a color range that is transparent. As others have said, JPEG is a lossy format, and your area of pure white will be turned in to blocks of various similar shades of white by the algorithm, that's why a range of whites would be needed. As was also said, PNG supports an alpha channel, which means .NET can just draw it with a transparent area. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

I do exactly the same in my main form, 1 DGV and throw tables at it. I have a static method that formats names according to the capitilasition eg "ContactID" becomes "Contact ID" and I use this to populate the header text, it is part of a method that is used to bind all DGVs and gives me a consistent format throughout the app. It also means you need to take your conventions all the way back to the database design. As I own the DB I have no problem with this. My problem is that if you bind to the List using the public properties you lose the sort/filter capabilities unless you implement iBindingList (I think) on each of your classes which is a PITA. So Ah Ha I though, turn each class into a datatable, at which point I chucked the entire bind to class list out and just bind to the original datatable. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

I had this problem too. To bypass i used the app.config to do the hibernate configuration. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <configSections> <section name="hibernate-configuration" type="NHibernate.Cfg.ConfigurationSectionHandler, NHibernate"/> </configSections> <hibernate-configuration xmlns="urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2"> <session-factory> ... </session-factory> </hibernate-configuration> </configuration>

I haven't used a Table Adapter like you are talking about, but one thought that came to me when reading this is that a System.Byte is not the same data type as your image variable. You need a Byte array. This code: Dim image(fs.Length) As Byte declares a Byte array, not a Byte. Hope this helps.

Your code is very confusing as you have variables named the same but at different levels. It would be easier to find the problem if you would have just one main variable for the filestream, one for the image byte array. Use if statements to determine which file you want to load, then when you've done all the checks you can have just one spot that actually uses the filestream reader code. You might also want to try using this instead of your filestreamreader code to convert the file into a byte array: If FileIO.FileSystem.FileExists(s) Then System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(s) End If Also, is there a reason you make a copy of the datatable to send in, instead of just sending dt? Hope this helps.