WPF Cannot locate resource

Question

I have a resource file and two views. This views use a resource file

    <ResourceDictionary>
        <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
            <ResourceDictionary Source="/Dictionary1.xaml"/>
        </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
    </ResourceDictionary>

And it will work while i dont put one view to the another. In this case i get this error

Cannot locate resource 'dictionary1.xaml'

How to fix it?

More details please, where exactly is your dictionary? what do you mean by putting one inside another? — mrahhal, Jan 07 '15 at 07:43
There are some styles for test. I mean that view1 have some view2 like a childs. — Nodon, Jan 07 '15 at 11:16

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 07 '15 at 07:45

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Use Pack Uri's

    <ResourceDictionary>
        <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
            <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://application:,,,/Assembly_Name;component/Dictionary1.xaml"/>
        </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
    </ResourceDictionary>

answered Jan 07 '15 at 07:45

Amol Bavannavar

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this is the only thing that worked for me, yet Microsoft doesn't list it in examples. Regular paths would work fine the application, but design mode and the IDE complain with errors. – Michael Brown Jun 08 '20 at 19:48

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 02 '19 at 12:28

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If Dictionary1.xaml in your project's rootpath, remove '/' before Dictionary1

<ResourceDictionary Source="Dictionary1.xaml"/>

Or you can use packuri like :

 /yourAssemblyName;component/Dictionary1.xaml

edited Oct 02 '19 at 12:28

mhDuke

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answered Jan 07 '15 at 07:45

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To be precise, it's the _assembly name_, not the _namespace_ and the leading forward slash seems optional... – Cool Blue Dec 16 '16 at 03:58
This is still the case in VS2015. I got an error about a user control not finding a resource dictionary file in my project root folder, when I named it with a leading forward slash `/resourcedictionary.xaml`. Why does this cause error messages, considering that it runs fine? – Oystein Jan 30 '18 at 08:29

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