Background Image of Button not showing in WPF

Question

I have program in which I have lots of buttons. Each of button has background set as

  <Button x:Name="mybutton"  HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="30" Margin="76,110,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="25" Click="some_click">
                <Button.Background>
                    <ImageBrush ImageSource="Resource/button_picture.png"/>
                </Button.Background>
</Button>

Image is showing as background in .xaml when program not running but when i run application image is not there as background of button. How do i debug this background in button ? Is there any goofy error that is there?

Can you tell me more as I am having the exact same issue now.... — MoonKnight, Mar 26 '13 at 11:42
I was clearing the background myself in loading event of window, so no matter what i put in xaml, it will get clear in C# — Андрей Про, Mar 26 '13 at 14:09

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '13 at 13:49

Let's make sure we have the following properties set right in your scenario

1) Build Action -> Resource

2) Copy to Output Directory -> Do not copy

3) Instead of using the relative path for image source, try using a full path to the image like this (I say this because I don't know where the image resource is located in your project, using relative path is perfectly normal in WPF)

<Image Source="pack://application:,,,/AssemblyNameContainingImageResource;component/Resource/button_picture.png" />

The third suggestion helped me!! – HoKy22 Aug 09 '14 at 03:56 — HoKy22, Aug 09 '14 at 03:56

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '13 at 12:48

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You need to change the code like this

<Button x:Name="mybutton"  HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="30" Margin="76,110,0,0"    VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="25" Click="some_click">
    <Image Source="Resource/button_picture.png"/>
</Button>

answered Feb 26 '13 at 12:48

Herks

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this even removes image as button background when application not running and when running application it does not show either – Андрей Про Feb 26 '13 at 12:56

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 26 '13 at 12:54

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Change the Build Action of button_picture.png to Resource if it is content. Also check the Copy to output directory property value

answered Feb 26 '13 at 12:54

Manish

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I am not able to reproduce it. Can you provide more code which may be related to this button? – Manish Feb 26 '13 at 13:04

Background Image of Button not showing in WPF

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