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Ricardo Alves
Ricardo Alves

Reputation: 1121

How to set the background of a WPF grid to an image in local folder?

I'm developing a small WPF application and I'm trying to change the background of a grid to an image the user chooses (stored somewhere on the computer on a different location from the app). Is it possible without having the images included on the project and marked as a Resource? How?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 402

Answers (3)

StepUp
StepUp

Reputation: 38094

Assuming you Grid name is grid, then xaml would be:

<Grid Name="grid">
...
</Grid>

then to set an image programatically to grid, you should use the following code snippet:

 string imgPath=@"E:\anImage.jpg";
 grid.Background= new ImageBrush { ImageSource = new BitmapImage(new Uri(imgPath,
                                                   UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute)) };

Upvotes: 1

Anna
Anna

Reputation: 21

This works for me : 1) Add image in solution (Add => Existing Item)

2)<Grid> <Grid.Background> <ImageBrush ImageSource="/App;component/Chrysanthemum.jpg"> </ImageBrush> </Grid.Background> </Grid>

Upvotes: 0

MikeT
MikeT

Reputation: 5500

you just need to set the image's source URI to the image location

<Image Source="<<URI of image>>"/>

<ImageBrush ImageSource="<<URI of image>>"/>

or you can do the same via binding to allow it to be customised

<Image Source="{Binding Data}"/>

in this example Data is a byte[] stored in the model, but could be anything that converts to an image source

Upvotes: 0

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