Great thanks Paul
Followed your advice. Not sure if it was intellisense or Resharper but
that really helped and saved me a whole lot of frustration getting the
path correct.
<Image Width="516" Height="196" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
Source="/PathWestImages;component/Resources/banner.jpg" />
Now I have just got to tweak some code and then adjust some images to get them
look ok.
Regards Peter
On 12/01/2011 5:54 PM, Paul Stovell wrote:
Hi Peter,
What you have done should work.
Check that the Build Option of the image files in the assembly is set
to Resource (not Embedded Resource/Content/None). Also double check
that the file name is capitalized correctly. If it's in a folder,
you'll need to include that too:
/PathWestImages;component/My/Path/To/File.jpg
You shouldn't need to set the bin\Debug path -- adding the reference
from your main project (and making sure Copy Local = true in the
project properties) should ensure it gets copied there.
Paul
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Peter Maddin
*Sent:* Wednesday, 12 January 2011 2:22 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* WPF Images in a resource
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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