Change WPF button background image programmatically

Question

I\'m trying to create a with a png image for the background AND a background color.

Note: The png image source

Answer 1

A few ways spring to mind:

1. Access the style at runtime and traverse it to find the image
2. Give the image a name and reference that at runtime and just change the source

The best solution I believe is to create a usercontrol and have the image source as a dependency property see: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/224230/Exploring-the-use-of-Dependency-Properties-in-User

That way you'll have a ready-to-use "custom" control that supports what you're after and allows you to just reference it directly and use bindings, that way you avoid the messy solutions from using a style.

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