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WereWolfBoy
WereWolfBoy

Reputation: 508

Windows universal URI format exception

I'm working on a windows universal app. I want to show the user an image. The image is located in a subfolder within my assets folder, in both the phone and the windows folder.

I'm trying to put the image in a variable in a class that is in the shared folder. I am continously getting uri exceptions.

My code looks like this:

Uri uri = new Uri("/Assets/Image/avatar_anonymous.png");
chat_profilepicture_Bitmap = new BitmapImage(uri);

I've tried different urls, with and without capitals, the entire path "C://blablabla", and many more. Nothing seems to be working. I have also tried: pack://application:,,,/ which was suggested by multiple stackoverflow threads. But no luck there.

I'm thinking the problem lies in the image being in another project, is there a way to get around this? Or if this isn't the problem, what am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 785

Answers (2)

Chris Shao
Chris Shao

Reputation: 8231

In Windows Universal App, You can use Image Resource with ms-appx or ms-appdata.

  • ms-appx means using resource in App Package
  • ms-appdata menas using resource in floder of local, temp or roam.

So the uri can be written like this:

new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/Image/avatar_anonymous.png", UriKind.Absolute);

or

new Uri("ms-appdata:///LocalFolderName/demo.png", UriKind.Absolute);

Upvotes: 3

Muhammad Saifullah
Muhammad Saifullah

Reputation: 4292

Try this

Uri uri = new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/Image/avatar_anonymous.png");

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 5

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