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Asked: 2026-05-13T23:31:38+00:00

I need to display an image, which I’ve done without problems before, but today

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I need to display an image, which I’ve done without problems before, but today I decided to be tricky and use “add as link” instead. Well, now I get:

The file Images/hello.png is not part of the project or its ‘Build Action’ property is not set to ‘Resource’.

Wait… its Build Action is set to Resource. I’ve seen a Silverlight solution that involves the usage of Merged Dictionaries to share files between Silverlight and WPF projects, but it’s not clear to me that this would even apply to my WPF + Image issue.

Has anyone solved this problem before? I could make copies of all of the images, but that seems a little silly if I have a shared repository with clip art and the like.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Dave,

    I’ve just tried to add image as a link to plain WPF application. Build action is “Resource” (don’t confuse with “Embedded Resource”). I’ve added it to the root, and refer to it as <Image Source="/file_name.jpg"/> – all works fine.

    The message you have is it compile or runtime? If it’s a runtime, how do you refer to the image? Do you see it in Reflector, when you open your assembly (it should be under Resources folder)?

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