Error Setting Background Image in WPF

[berderder]

Hey everybody,

 

I don't understand this error message:

 

"Provide value on 'System.Windows.Baml2006.TypeConverterMarkupExtension' threw an exception.' Line number '7' and line position '14'."

 

It's a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in Visual Studio using Visual Basic.

 

Here's the code, I'm not sure I understand what's wrong:

 

<Window x:Class="MainWindow"

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">

    <Grid>

        <Grid.Background>

            <ImageBrush ImageSource="space.jpg"/>

        </Grid.Background>

 

    </Grid>

</Window>

[madknight3]

A jpg image should be compatible, so make sure the path and filename is correct.

 

Also make sure the build action is set properly for the image. To do this, look at the properties of the image file in visual studio.

 

"Build Action" should be set to either "Content" or "Resources" (most people seem to say resources is the one that worked for them)

"Copy To Output Directory" might also need to be set to "Copy if newer"

[berderder]

Thanks - it was strange.  Apparently I needed to put in the whole file path even though the image still loaded correctly before debugging