Question

What I am trying to do is so simple but I am having a hard time making it work. I saw some posts along the same lines but I still have questions.

I have a MenuItem object called mnuA. All I want is set the icon property programatically in C#. I have tried the following

a) mnuA.Icon = new BitmapImage{UriSource = new Uri(@'c:\icons\A.png')}; Results: Instead of showing the actual icon, I get the class name (System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage)

b) mnuA.Icon = new BitmapImage(new Uri(@'c:\icons\A.png')); Results: Instead of showing the actual icon, I get the path of the image (file:///c:/icons/A.png)

What am I doing wrong? Do I really need a converter class for something simple like this?

Answer 1

Try this:

Image img = new Image(); img.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri(@'c:\icons\A.png')); mnuA.Icon = img;