Is there a way to get ms-access to display images from external files

Question

I\'ve got an MS-Access app (1/10th MS-Acccess, 9/10ths MS-SQL) that needs to display photographs of some assets along with their specifications. Currently the images are sto

Answer 1

The easiest way is probably to plop an Internet Explorer onto one of your forms. Check out this site: http://www.acky.net/tutorials/vb/wbrowser/

Since you can reference that object in Access, you will only need to point the webbrowser control to the path of the .jpg (NavigateTo() if I remember correctly).

EDIT: The above link was just googled and picked from the results (first one that opened quickly). I do not think it is a very good tutorial, it just has all the pointers you need... Check out msdn etc. if you need more information!