WPF - Image 'is not part of the project or its Build Action is not set to Resource'

Question

I have a project which requires an image in the window. This is a static image and i added through \'Add>Existing Item\'. It exists in the root of the project.

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Answer 1

I faced the exact same issue but restarting VS2008 or cleaning and rebuilding the project did not work for me. In the end, the below steps did the trick.

• In Windows Explorer copy the Image into your project resource folder. Example: MyProject\Resources\
• From within Visual Studio right click on the Resources and select "Add > Existing item" and select the image which you have just copied in
• From within the form XAML set the image source as: "Source="Resources/MyImage.ico" (my image was saved as icon (.ico) file, but this approach should work for any image type

Hope this helps someone