I am attempting to display an external image at runtime in report viewer. I have the path of the image stored in a field in the sql db and have set the value property for that image to that field:

=Fields!ResPicPath.Value

But it will not display when I run the report.

If I manually enter the path in the value field then it displays:

File:\\<servername>\image.jpg

What am I missing when I try to display it from the path value of the db field? (Tried putting File: in from of the field valuse but that did not work either).

I do have enable external images set to True.