WPF: Disappearing icons

Question

I have several icons which are declared in Window.Resources. They show up fine the first time they need to appear (eg: a Menu is clicked, the MenuItem icon works), but after ano

Answer 1

That's because your resource is an Image, which is a Control. Controls can only have one parent so it's effectively being re-parented in each MenuItem on the fly.

Your options are:

1. Don't use Image and instead use ImageSource or even a string containing the URI of the image.
2. Set the resource to non-shared with the x:Shared XAML attribute. This will create multiple Image controls as needed.