Hi Greg, I’m going to make a few assumptions here.. First up is that the “image” is a Path element defined in a resource dictionary which is then inside the xaml file. Next up, the path element will need to have a name defined using x:key=”nameofresourcehere” <ResourceDictionary> <Path x:Key=”MyXamlImage” …. /> </ ResourceDictionary > Once you have this, then in the xaml file you want the image to be included in, you’ll need to import the resource, it’s a bit verbose but it will be along the lines of <Window.Resources> <ResourceDictionary> <ResourceDictionary.MergeDictionary> <ResourceDictionary Source=”PathToFileWithImage.xaml”/> </ResourceDictionary.MergeDictionary> </ResourceDictionary> </Window.Resources> Then to use it, <MenuItem…. Icon=”{StaticResource MyXamlImage}”> </MenuItem> Hope this helps. Ed. From: Greg Keogh via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2024 5:57 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Cc: Greg Keogh <gfkeogh@gmail.com> Subject: XAML images in WPF? 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