HOW TO: Store and Retrieve an Image File with SQL Server CE and eVB

SUMMARY

This step-by-step article describes how to store an image file to a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition (SQL Server CE) database and how to retrieve the stored image from the database and reconstruct the image file. This article uses Microsoft Embedded Visual Basic as the development platform.

The sections that follow describe how to create an Embedded Visual Basic application that uses two command buttons. One command button stores a .jpg file to a SQL Server CE database. The second command button is for reconstructing the .jpg file from the image data stored in the SQL Server CE database.