Read a picture from Access DB into PictureBox

Question

I have been trying to read a picture saved in Access DB as a OLE object in a PictureBox in a C# windows Application.

The code that does this is presented below:

Answer 1

You can't read OLE objects so easily. In fact, it is bad practice to keep pictures as OLE objects in database.

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