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Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook 100 recipes to build rich desktop client applications on Windows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788399807
Length 524 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kunal Chowdhury Kunal Chowdhury
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. WPF Fundamentals 2. Using WPF Standard Controls FREE CHAPTER 3. Layouts and Panels 4. Working with Data Bindings 5. Using Custom Controls and User Controls 6. Using Styles, Templates, and Triggers 7. Using Resources and MVVM Patterns 8. Working with Animations 9. Using WCF Services 10. Debugging and Threading 11. Interoperability with Win32 and WinForm 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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When the Build Action is set to Resource, the file is stored as a resource inside the compiled assembly. In our case, image1.png was set to Resource inside the project binary, which makes the actual image file unnecessary while deploying the application.

When the Build Action is set to Content, the resource is not included in the assembly. To make it available to the application, Copy to Output Directory needs to be set to either Copy Always or Copy if Newer.

This makes it more appropriate for when the resource needs to change often and a rebuild would be undesirable. If the resource is not available in the output directory, this will render a blank image while executing. If the resource is large and not always needed, it's better to leave it to the resulting assembly.

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