Dynamically add image to WPF button

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In my VB.Net application I have a simple WPF button being inserted into to a stack panel using Children.Add. It is fairly strait forward as to how I add content and a name to this button with Button.Name and Button.Content

Everything that I'm finding seems to point to using styles or templates, but I need this button to be constructed and added on the go.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Jason

Posted 8-Jun-11 8:33am

JasonSelf

Updated 8-Jun-11 8:34am

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What Tarun demonstrated in just the basic idea. It cannot server as a fully-functional button.

Look at more realistic and functional implementations:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/91df562f-414c-4326-ac65-42ef301b5f8f/[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc295235.aspx[^] (see "Image button"),
WPF Custom Controls - Without The Pain[^],
WPF: IconButton[^].

—SA

Posted 8-Jun-11 9:02am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Member 12293114 4-Feb-16 1:22am

Hoe to Add multiple Images to Canvas on button click event in wpf

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Feb-16 1:37am

Just add some instances of Image elements as children of Canvas using Canvas.Children.Add, Canvas.SetTop and Canvas.SetLeft to position each one.
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Tarun.K.S · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-08T08:51:00

Solution 1

This is how I did:

C#

Button button2 = new Button();
//Using PackUri syntax where LoadImages is the name of the project and Images is the folder where the Images are stored as resources.
BitmapImage btm = new BitmapImage(new Uri("/LoadImages;component/Images/Bear.bmp", UriKind.Relative));
Image img = new Image();
img.Source = btm;
img.Stretch = Stretch.Fill;
button2.Content = img;
//Set some additional properties 
button2.Height = 35;
button2.Width = 100;
stackpanel1.Children.Add(button2);

Hope it will work for you too.
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Posted 8-Jun-11 8:51am

Tarun.K.S

Updated 8-Jun-11 9:03am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Jun-11 14:56pm

Well, nearly the simplest sample, my 5. It won't look like a button, show text, button states, etc., but it can be another step.
--SA

Tarun.K.S 8-Jun-11 15:06pm

Thanks for the vote SA but it will look like a button, it will have its click event etc. It will just insert the picture instead of the usual text.

Tarun.K.S 8-Jun-11 15:08pm

Just to add on, the OP is adding the buttons dynamically, so XAML cannot be used here. But yes a ControlTemplate can be used for the button if the OP wants the button to be stylish, otherwise my solution will work just fine.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Jun-11 18:15pm

Yes, I forgot about this requirement when collecting links to my answer -- thanks for reminding me. However, everything XAML can do can be done dynamically (but not visa versa).
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Jun-11 15:02pm

For something really functional, please see the links in my solution.
--SA

JasonSelf 8-Jun-11 15:18pm

That worked, thanks. I wasn't aware that content could be an image rather than just a text string. WPF's still a very foreign thing to me.

Tarun.K.S 8-Jun-11 15:48pm

You're welcome. Yes WPF is awesome! You can even add a stackpanel or a grid into it! Enjoy!