Programmatically set the Source of an Image (XAML)

Question

I am working on a Windows 8 app. I need to know how to programmatically set the Source of an Image. I assumed that the Silverlight approach would work. However, it doesn't. Does anybody know how to do this? The following will not work:

string pictureUrl = GetImageUrl(); Image image = new Image(); image.Source = new Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage(new Uri(pictureUrl, UriKind.Relative)); image.Stretch = Stretch.None; image.HorizontalAlignment = Windows.UI.Xaml.HorizontalAlignment.Left; image.VerticalAlignment = Windows.UI.Xaml.VerticalAlignment.Center; 

I get an Exception that says: "The given System.Uri cannot be converted into a Windows.Foundation.Uri."

However, I can't seem to find the Windows.Foundation.Uri type.

Answer 1

I just tried

Image.Source = new BitmapImage(     new Uri("http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg", UriKind.Absolute)); 

And it works without problems... I'm using System.Uri here. Maybe you have a malformed URI or you have to use an absolute URI and use UriKind.Absolute instead?

Answer 2

This is what I use:

string url = "ms-appx:///Assets/placeHolder.png"; image.Source = RandomAccessStreamReference.CreateFromUri(new Uri(url));