How to set a background of WPF Window?

Question

I have a simple WPF window. I intend to set it's background to be one of the images I added to project as Embedded Resource. This is what I tried:

<Window x:Class="A_Boggle.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="A-Boggle" Height="300" Width="625" ResizeMode="NoResize" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" Name="Game"> <Window.Background>     <ImageBrush ImageSource="background.jpg"></ImageBrush> </Window.Background> <Grid> </Grid> 

But with this, i always get this: "Error 1 The file splash.jpg is not part of the project or its 'Build Action' property is not set to 'Resource'."

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Go to the image within VS and set the item to be a Resource. Right click -> Properties -> Build Action -> Resource

Update:

You need to change the path if it is in a folder. ie...Resources/background.jpg

Answer 2

you can use this in main.xaml.cs

  InitializeComponent();         ImageBrush myBrush = new ImageBrush();         myBrush.ImageSource =             new BitmapImage(new Uri("F://13.png", UriKind.Absolute));         this.Background = myBrush;