Last couple of days i’ve been reading Professional SQL Server Reporting Services. Today i wanted to display some images so i decided to use the Northwind database which has an Employees table that contains photos.. I set the MIMEType to image/bmp, Source to Database and Value to =Fields!Photo.Value but i kept getting a red cross instead of the image

After a lot of searching, i found the following in Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services:

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  And yes, once i used this as value for the image, everything worked as expected:
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  <img src="http://www.timvw.be/wp-content/images/reportingservices-02.gif" alt="image of a sql server reporting service report where an image is correctly displayed" />
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