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Chapter 12. Resources

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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—is exactly what the rest ...

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