Cannot locate resource

Question

I don\'t know exactly if it is a bug but i am getting all the time runtime IOException error saying Cannot locate resource.

I am loading some images in my app (c#, WPF)

Answer 1

I've had a similar issue: IOException, cannot locate a png resource which indeed existed in the assembly.

I found the solution by explicitly specifying the assembly name, even though the caller was in the same assembly as the resource.

Here's how it looks with a Pack URI syntax:

pack://application:,,,/MyAssemblyName;component/MyResourcesFolder/MyImage.png

(For more about Pack URIs see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970069.aspx)

Edit: One more thing I had to do after specifying the assembly name was to Clean the project. The problem returns after build but was resolved after cleaning the intermediate products. This is definitely a bug in Visual Studio.

Answer 2

You need to set the build action of the image to the type 'Resource'.

Right-mouse click on the file >> Properties >> set 'Build Action' to 'Resource'