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Paul Michaels
Paul Michaels

Reputation: 16705

Image not displaying in Windows Phone 8 App

I have a C#/XAML Windows Phone 8 App. In it, I'm trying to display an image on top of the screen; however, when I do so, it doesn't appear.

Here's my image:

<Image Grid.Row ="1" Grid.RowSpan="4" Grid.Column ="1"
       Width ="150" Height ="100"
       Visibility ="Collapsed" x : Name="MyImage">
     <Image.RenderTransform>
          <ScaleTransform CenterX ="75" CenterY="50">
          </ScaleTransform>
     </Image.RenderTransform>
</Image>

This is part of an animation (here's the storyboard):

<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName ="MyImage"
                 Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(ScaleTransform.ScaleX)"
                 From ="0" To ="1" Duration="0:0:0.2"/>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName ="MyImage"
                 Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(ScaleTransform.ScaleY)"
                 From ="0" To ="1" Duration="0:0:0.2"/>

And I trigger the animation like this:

BitmapImage newImage = new BitmapImage ();
newImage.UriSource = new Uri( "ms-appx:///Assets/MyImage.png" ); // Can change
MyImage.Source = newImage;
MyImage.Visibility = Visibility .Visible;

Storyboard sbExpand = (Storyboard )this.Resources[storyboardName];
sbExpand.Completed += sbExpand_Completed;
sbExpand.Begin();

I know this works, because if I replace the image with a button, it does what I expect. Why doesn't the image display? Is an image even the right control to use in this circumstance?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2763

Answers (1)

Martin Suchan
Martin Suchan

Reputation: 10620

You cannot use on Windows Phone 8 for Image Source the URI scheme ms-appx, it works only in Windows 8 projects.
You can check my blog article here, how to properly link images in resources/isolated storage using Uri:

Image path databinding in WP8 and Windows 8 apps

Upvotes: 4

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