Referencing Files with URIs
The mapping of an Image element in XAML to the equivalent C# code is not always obvious. The preceding example:
<Image Source="Assets/Logo.png"/>
is equivalent to the following C# code placed in a Page’s code-behind:
Image image = new Image(); image.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri(this.BaseUri, "Assets/Logo.png"));
There are two things going on here. One is that a type converter hides the complexity involving ImageSource, the type of the Source property. An ImageSource cannot be directly instantiated, nor can its BitmapSource subclass, but BitmapSource has two subclasses that can be instantiated: BitmapImage, the one typically used, and WriteableBitmap, covered ...
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