December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
17h 32m
English
book
Windows® Presentation Foundation Unleashed
by Adam Nathan, Daniel Lehenbauer - Lead Developer Responsible for WPF 3D
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Chapter 8. Resources
In This Chapter
The .NET Framework has generic infrastructure for packaging and accessing resources—the noncode pieces of an application or component, such as bitmaps, fonts, audio/video files, and string tables. As with many other parts of WPF, WPF not only leverages the core .NET resources system but adds a little more support. WPF supports two distinct types of resources: binary resources and logical resources.
Binary Resources
The first type—binary resources—are exactly what the rest of the .NET Framework considers to be resources. In WPF applications, these are typically traditional items like bitmaps. However, even compiled XAML gets stored as such a resource behind the scenes. Binary ...