OutlookBarItem Icon in ResourceDictionary

[Renier Pretorius]

I am building a solution with multiple front-end clients and wish to maintain a consistent Look&Feel between them. For this I have created a shared Silverlight library which contains common resources including all images/icons. I have declared a resource dictionary in this project which I then merge into the other client projects in the root visual. I have used this successfully to add image to a RadButton as follows:

<ResourceDictionary
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

    <ImageSource x:Key="HomeIcon">Images/house_16xLG.png</ImageSource>

</ResourceDictionary>

<telerik:RadButton.Content>
    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
        <Image Source="{StaticResource HomeIcon}" Margin="3" Stretch="None" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
        <TextBlock Text="Home" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="3"/>
    </StackPanel>
</telerik:RadButton.Content>

Now I also want to use these images as icons for RadOutlookBarItem but I am struggling to find the right syntax (assuming that it is possible)

[Pavel R. Pavlov]

Hi Renier,

I am not sure that I understand where you need to add that image. Could you please take a look at the visual structure of the RadOutlookBar control and let us know the exact place where you need to import your image.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Regards,
Pavel R. Pavlov
Telerik

[Renier Pretorius]

Hi Pavel,

Sorry if my post was not clear. I have found a workaround but it is not quite as elegant as the image dictionary method I wanted to use.

What I am using is:

<telerik:RadOutlookBarItem Header="General"
    Icon="/KIO.Logistics.Apps.Common;component/Resources/Images/screwdriver_24xLG.png"
    SmallIcon="/KIO.Logistics.Apps.Common;component/Resources/Images/screwdriver_16xLG.png">
</telerik:RadOutlookBarItem>

What I wanted to do was:

<telerik:RadOutlookBarItem Header="General"
    Icon="{StaticResource ScrewDriverIconLarge}"
    SmallIcon="{StaticResource ScrewDriverIconSmall}">
</telerik:RadOutlookBarItem>

My issue is what to put here:

<ResourceDictionary
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

    <ImageSource x:Key="HomeIcon">Images/house_16xLG.png</ImageSource>

     <telerik:RadOutlookBarItem.Icon x:Key="ScrewDriverIconLarge">Images/screwdriver_16xLG.png</telerik:RadOutlookBarItem.Icon> <== THIS LINE

</ResourceDictionary>

Thanks for your assistance

Regards

Renier

[Pavel R. Pavlov]

Hi Renier,

The approach that you came up with is a possible solution in your case.

However, you can try merging your custom dictionary as application resource. You can find more information on that matter here. When following this approach you need to have in mind that the Silverlight plug-in has limited access to the file system. You can find more information here.

Once the dictionary is merged you should be able to access the images by x:Key attribute.

I hope this information is helpful.

Regards,
Pavel R. Pavlov
Telerik