'System.Windows.Controls.Image' does not contain a definition for 'FromFile'

[jasonalien]

Hello, I have this C# code but I get the error in the title. on the "FromFile" part. I want to simply publish images in my PC on a WPF application. How can I get rid of this error? Thanks. Code :

using System.Drawing;

namespace Photo
{
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();

        string filename1 = @"C:\\images\\mainicon.jpg";
        Image image1 = Image.FromFile(filename1);
    }
}

}

Error : 'System.Windows.Controls.Image' does not contain a definition for 'FromFile'

[Richard Deeming]

At a guess, do you have a control on your window with the name set to "Image"? Try creating an alias for the Image type name, or using the fully qualified type name:

using DrawingImage = System.Drawing.Image;
...
DrawingImage image1 = DrawingImage.FromFile(filename1);

// -or-

var image1 = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(filename1);

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[Deflinek]

Your codes contains

using System.Drawing

but you are getting error from System.Windows.Controls namespace. Most likely there is either some namespace confusion for compiler. Try specify the namespace explicitly in the last line:

Image image1 = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(filename1);

-- "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

[jasonalien]

Thank you for your reply, I did what you said and I get this : The type or namespace name 'Image' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Drawing' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Thanks.

[Deflinek]

Do you reference System.Drawing.dll in your project?

-- "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

[Swinkaran]

I'm sorry if I am wrong, but I would rather do this as follows. I guess this is a better way of loading the file dynamically

Uri filename1 = new Uri(@"C:\images\mainicon.jpg");
image1.Source = new BitmapImage(filename1);

Is this something helpful?