# Binding RadImageGallery to a Static Collection of Items

**RadImageGallery** provides an option to bind to a static collection and manually define your gallery items by specifying each one individually in the **RadImageGallery.Items** collection. This type of binding is ideal when the informationthat you want to display is not stored in a database and you want to add it manually.Each item has properties that define the image and thumbnail URL, description, title, width and height.**Example 1** shows how to bind a **RadImageGallery** to a static collection of images.**Figure1** shows the result.

**The output of this sample is represented in Figure 1.**

```ASPNET
<telerik:radimagegallery id="RadImageGallery1" runat="server" contentviewmode="ContentArea">
	<Items>
		<telerik:ImageGalleryItem ImageUrl="../images/1.png" ThumbnailUrl="../images/thumbnail/thumb1.png" Title="Mountain Pine Cones" 
			Description="You can find these little treasures amidst the pine branches, deep in the green summer mountain." />
		<telerik:ImageGalleryItem ImageUrl="../images/2.png" ThumbnailUrl="../images/thumbnail/thumb2.png" Title="Girl Holding Dandelions" 
			Description="A thousand wishes." />
		<telerik:ImageGalleryItem ImageUrl="../images/3.png" ThumbnailUrl="../images/thumbnail/thumb3.png" Title="Butterfly" 
			Description="Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it turned into a butterfly." />
		<telerik:ImageGalleryItem ImageUrl="../images/4.png" ThumbnailUrl="../images/thumbnail/thumb4.png" Title="Ladybug" 
			Description="Rumor has it if a ladybug lands on you, something wonderful will happen to you." />
		<telerik:ImageGalleryItem ImageUrl="../images/5.png" ThumbnailUrl="../images/thumbnail/thumb5.png" Title="Air Balloons" 
			Description="Fairy tale in the sky." />
		<telerik:ImageGalleryItem ImageUrl="../images/6.png" ThumbnailUrl="../images/thumbnail/thumb6.png" Title="Fireworks" 
			Description="Rain of light." />
		<telerik:ImageGalleryItem ImageUrl="../images/7.png" ThumbnailUrl="../images/thumbnail/thumb7.png" Title="Young Girl" 
			Description="Innocence." />
		<telerik:ImageGalleryItem ImageUrl="../images/8.png" ThumbnailUrl="../images/thumbnail/thumb8.png" Title="Forest" 
			Description="The golden hues of the fall trees merge in one living organism." />
		<telerik:ImageGalleryItem ImageUrl="../images/9.png" ThumbnailUrl="../images/thumbnail/thumb9.png" Title="Lake" 
			Description="The crystal beauty of the winter and magical wonderland it creates." />
	</Items>
</telerik:radimagegallery>
```

**This figure represents the thumbnail image, the title and the description of particular item from the ImageGallery.**
![image-gallery-binding-to-static-collection](https://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/documentation/assets/af888378189cebc65dc0ca039fa41492/image-gallery-binding-to-static-collection.jpg)

## See Also

* [Binding to Folder and Static Collection demo](https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/image-gallery/examples/data-binding/server-side-binding/binding-to-folder-and-static-collection/defaultcs.aspx)

* [Binding to Folder](https://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/documentation/controls/imagegallery/data-binding/server-side/binding-to-folder)

* [Binding to a Declarative Data Source](https://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/documentation/controls/imagegallery/data-binding/server-side/declarative-data-source)

* [Advanced Data-binding](https://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/documentation/controls/imagegallery/data-binding/server-side/advanced-via-needdatasource)