I had a very annoying problem when I did a simple WPF program. I just wanted to test something and I wanted my program to display an image. This is what I did:
1. Create a new WPF application in Visual Studio.
2. Create a folder in my project with the name "images". Add an image to this folder on disk.
3. Right click the images-folder and select add existing item. The image is added and it is set to "Resource".
4. In Window1.xaml set the following code:
<Window x:Class="TestProject.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:TestProject"
Title="Test" Height="500" Width="650">
<Grid Background="Black">
<Image Source="images/1.jpg" />
</Grid>
</Window>
5. When running this code it works ok, but when I want to see it in the Visual Studio Designer I get an exception saying:
Error 1 The file /images/1.jpg is not part of the project or its 'Build Action' property is not set to 'Resource'.
Solution: Rename the image to something like img1.jpg. I do not know why this happen but it works if you rename the image-file. You could rename it to 2.jpg and it will work. Anyone?
8 comments:
Thanks for the post! I couldn't see what I was doing wrong with such a simple task but it was Visual Studio all along ;)
A restart of VS also helps.
Also noticed that VS complains about Source="images/myimage.jpg" although the image is found at runtime.
Prefixing with "/" (Source="/images/myimage.jpg") fixed the problem for me.
Thank you!!!!!
I was trying the Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed book and met this error. Changed file name of pinHorizontal.gif (as stated in the book) to pinHoriz.gif - worked straight away.
Brilliant! Renaming the file worked for me too. Tried everything, including slashes in the source URL, etc.
Heh, I had the same problem and I wasn't able to find a solution till now. Thanks.
Thank you Adrian F. The "/" solved my issue!
Thank you Adrian F!
The trick with adding "/" solved my issue.
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