Comments on: Loading images in Silverlight 2

By: book

book — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:03:50 +0000

nice post, thanks for sharing.
I usually don’t post on Blogs but ya forced me to, great info.

By: whatispunk

whatispunk — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:34:31 +0000

Thanks very much. I was struggling with method #3. Your simple comment of “(Note: I had to manually copy the image to my web projects ClientBin directory)” answered my question. But it raises another, the images get put in the build output directory (i.e. /Bin/Debug/Images). I suppose you could write a post build event to copy these to the ClientBin but it just seems like Visual Studio should be doing this for us? Or am I just lazy.

Also, I second @hendo’s question. “is it possible to set the image source at runtime to an image outside /ClientBin?”

By: Alex Ivanov

Alex Ivanov — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:25:27 +0000

In section “Image 2″, I don’t think the following line will work:

Uri uri2 = new Uri(“2.jpg”, UriKind.Relative);

I had to follow the special assembly plus component syntax to get it working:

Uri uri2 = new Uri(“/MyAssembly;component/someFolder/2.jpg”, UriKind.Relative);

By: hendo

hendo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:51:53 +0000

is it possible to set the image source at runtime to an image outside /ClientBin? I’ve got an up I allow users to upload images to /images/inventory and I’d like to be able to display these in a Silverlight control but I haven’t been able to make it work.

Thanks.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:28:17 +0000

Is there a working example of this????

By: aong

aong — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:49:30 +0000

Thank you so much.It helps me.

By: LeMinh

LeMinh — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:18:44 +0000

Thanks, it helps me

By: Randy Stimpson

Randy Stimpson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:08:16 +0000

BitmapImages is from namespace System.Windows.Media.Imaging

By: austin a

austin a — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:37:07 +0000

Could add some info on the tradeoffs (scenarios) WHEN i would use #1 (in assy), #2, #3 (in xap, not in assy), #4 (not in xap, in same folder on webserver)

I guess #4 allows faster xap download if jpg not needed right away.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:52:27 +0000

You mentioned loading an image procedurally using BitmapImage with a URI, but there’s another important way to load an image. You can use the BitmapImage.SetSource method to load an image from a stream. The stream could be a local file specified via the open file dialog, a remote file downloaded in some way, data from a database, an image generated on the fly (see Stegman’s PNG encoder), and so on.