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 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