If the image came from a database, either you database stored the path and you haven't retrieved it, or it stored the image itself, in which case, there is no path since it's not stored as a file anywhere. If you built the dataset yourself from image files, you just need to add the path to the file you used to another column in the dataset. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

If you know the file format of the respective image files, you could very well extract RGB compnoents of the pixel. Regards, Paresh.

For png and I think tiff you can use of CImage class. WhiteSky

first, it is much better to use "between" instead of the greater than and equal... second, maybe because of a time issue make your two dates boundless to time... format it and parse it as date.

Hello, Your bitmaps are incompatible. Just try Bitmap.CreateCompatibleBitmap(theDC, 100, 100); instead of Bitmap.CreateBitmap(100,100,1,24,NULL); Regards,

Do you have any handle(hbitmap)? WhiteSky