I am learning WPF so I am very much a newbie. I want to be able to
reference images with an Image control from within an assembly.
Something similar to the Resources available to WinForms development.
According to
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wpf/thread/16bce8a4-1ee7-4be9-bd7f-0cc2b0f80cf0/
You
1. Create a control library and include the image files asResources
2. In your app, add a reference to the library above
3. Access the image files via "/<libraryName>;component/<path to
image>" type of relative Uris. For e.g. if your control library is
ImageStore.dll, then to refer to foo.png, you'd have
"/ImageStore;component/foo.png"
In XAML, this can be <Image Source="/ImageStore;component/foo.png" />
I am not sure what a 'control' library is. I assumed that this was a
'class' library (which may be incorrect). I created one called
PathWestImages and added a resources file to it and deleted the class
added by default. I set it to build to the bin/debug directory of my WPF
application. I added a jpg file to my resources class and did a build. I
then added a reference to the class library in my WPF application.
In my XAML I tried
<Image Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Stretch="Fill" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
MinHeight="50" Source="/PathWestImages;component/banner.jpg">
But it says it cannot locate banner.jpg.
I did some googling and just found
http://windowsclient.net/blogs/nidonocu/archive/2008/02/16/wpf-themes-and-control-libraries.aspx
so I am fairly sure my preconceptions were invalid. I have not had time
to read this fully as I have to go out for a while. I'll try and digest
it when I get back.
Is there an easy way to do this? Any simple pointers to follow.
I thought that while WPF was different to WinForms, being such a
graphically rich development environment this sort of thing would be
easier than WinForms not harder.
Regards Peter
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