Image Types Overview (WinForms)

• Apr 29, 2025

The Dashboard Designer allows you to create two types of Image dashboard items.

Image

The Image dashboard item allows you to add a static image to the dashboard.

Bound Image

The Bound Image dashboard item can be bound to a set of images (for instance, stored in the database). You can use the Bound Image as a detail item along with the Master Filtering feature.

Create Image Item in UI

To create the required Image dashboard item, use the Images button in the Home ribbon tab.

Create Image Item in Code

In code, the Image and Bound Image dashboard items are the ImageDashboardItem and BoundImageDashboardItem classes, respectively.

The following topics describe various Image capabilities:

• Providing Images - describes how to load images to Image dashboard items.
• Image Settings - describes various settings related to image representation.
• Add Alternative Text for Image and Bound Image Items in WinForms - describes how to set alt text.
• Interactivity - describes interactivity settings of the Bound Image dashboard item.