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Asked: 2026-05-16T14:33:29+00:00

I’ve been working on a Windows Phone 7 app, and after a bit of

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I’ve been working on a Windows Phone 7 app, and after a bit of Googling it seems that for images that I have added to the Visual Studio project, I need to set the build action to “Content” in order to be able to reference the images in my app.

However, the Windows Phone List Application project template includes an image (ArrowImg.png) that has its Build Action set to “Resource”, and is still available to be referenced from the application.

I was wondering if anyone could confirm that we should definitely be using the Content build action, or whether there is some way to access images added to a project with the Resource Build Action as shown in the project sample, which we should be using instead?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you set the action to “Content” the image is included “as-is” in the XAP.
    If you set the action to “Resource” the image is embedded into a shared DLL.

    In a lot of situations you can use either. There may be a performance, or other, issue with using one rather than another but I’m not aware of and have never noticed any.

    For what it’s worth, unless I need to specifically make it a resource, I use content.

    With the current (Beta) tools, I have seen VS complain that images directly referenced in XAML should be set to “Resource” (if set to “Content”) but the app works fine with either. Hopefully this is an issue which will be addressed in the RTM tools.

    For more information see the discussion in What are the various "Build action" settings in Visual Studio project properties and what do they do?

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