> I have MySql as back end I want to store picture of products/categories/people one picture each
> My question is what type of field is best suited for this and with what type of field do I map it in VFP(General/text etc) so it will not generate me an error when I tight the OleBoundControl to it?
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> Intelligence reduces itself to making things easy even though they are complicated.

Stay away from General by all means. You either store a complete path\filename to the Pictures folder and use that with an Image.Picture object, or you store the file in a 'binary' Memo (NoCPTrans) or a Blob column and use he PictureVal property. See Help PictureVal

See alsos How to print pictures and how to display pictures that are stored in a Blob field in Visual FoxPro 9.0 at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895602

-Anders