Folks, in a video I saw a few weeks ago I learned that the Visual Studio
team uses XAML for most of their images, not png or similar. I'm keen to do
the same because I imagine that I would no longer need tedious sets of
16x16 32x32 48x48 ... etc images because each XAML file is composed from
scalable geometry elements that would look good at any size.
I downloaded the Image Library
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35825> which
contains thousands of XAML, png and svg sets of standard images. But I
can't figure out how to *simply* use the XAML files in a WPF app. All the
examples I can find seem to have pasted the contents of the XAML images
into resource files and then reference them by x:Key. I don't want to
manually paste XAML around like that, I just want to add a file like
*FolderClosedBlue.xaml* (for example) to my project and use it as the icon
for a menu or button as simply as possible. How can I replace this sort of
thing?...
<MenuItem Header="_Foo Command" Command="...">
<MenuItem.Icon>
< use the XAML image file somehow instead of a resource png? >
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
Is there some coding trick I'm not aware of to *simply* use an image
defined in a XAML file in my app?
Cheers, *Greg K*
