Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Viewing Images

You use the System.Windows.Controls.Image control to show images. The Visual Studio 2010 designer provides some improvements to help you manage more images than in the past editions. To see how the control works, create a new WPF project that will be used for all examples in this chapter and name it as DocumentsAndMedia. When ready, drag an Image control from the toolbox onto the new Window; then set its dimensions as you like. To view an image, you need to set the Source property that basically points to an Uri. Open the Properties window by pressing F4 and then click the button for the Source property. At this point you can select one or more images to add as resources to your project, as shown in Figure 34.1. When you add ...