Question

How to create a bitmap image programmatically when its source is an image with Build Action = Resource?

When I try the following I get an invalid URI exception 🙁

BitmapImage image = new BitmapImage(new Uri("/MyAssembly;component/Images/MyImage.png"));

I’m using silverlight 4 and this code is inside one of the many projects of my solution (it’s a silverlight class library and not the silverlight application).

Answer 1

BitmapImage image = new BitmapImage(new Uri("/MyAssembly;component/Images/MyImage.png"));

should be:

BitmapImage image = new BitmapImage(new Uri("/MyAssembly;component/Images/MyImage.png", UriKind.Relative));

Images/MyImage.png also assumes your image is located inside a folder called Images.