Moving MainWindow.xaml

Question

I\'ve built a WPF app, which completely works now. However, to clean it up a bit I wish to move my MainWindow.xaml to the view folder I\'ve created. After I\'ve

Answer 1

You don't need to update class name in xaml file unless you have changed the namespace of your class. Most likely you haven't updated StartupUri for App.xaml. Change it to:

StartupUri="view/MainWindow.xaml"

from

StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml"

Answer 2

The answer of @Rohit Vats is quite good!

However that's a good point to remember: you have to change all the absolute paths (in XAML) to your resources, prepending them by a / in order to indicate that these paths are relative to the root directory.

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Example:

From <Image Source="Assets/Loading.gif">

To <Image Source="/Assets/Loading.gif"> and so on.