Fill image list with images from datasource

I'm a complete newbie in this side of things having happily developed applications in Access for quite a while - but feeling very lost at the moment. After an afternoon of searching to no avail I'm forced to resort to whining newbie mode for some help .....

Current assumptions are that both a datasource and an imagelist are basically the same as a recordset in Access. If I wanted to move data from one to the other I would loop through and transfer records (possibly based on search criteria), but I don't seem to be able to track down how to do this in VB. The major problem is that most of the references I can find relate to using the Poperties window etc but I want to code this so in the future it can be dynamic.

I'm not looking for a ready made code example but if someone could point me in the right direction (possibly of some tutorials) or at least what I need to be looking at I would be most greatful.

Thanks

Alex