In this post we will look at how application data files can be referenced using relative Uris from within XAML or code in your Silverlight 2 application. Silverlight provides you with a luxury of choices for how you declare your application data files. These are the non-code artifacts of your app, such as images, videos, fonts etc. The build action for any file - i.e. how you declare it in your project file or within Visual Studio or Blend - is consequential to how it can be referenced in XAML or code via a Uri. While care was taken to ensure defaults that gel with the programmers intuitiveness while referencing them in Uris, there are always subtle issues that the intrepid Silverlight designer or developer must be aware of. If you come to Silverlight with previous WPF experience, the contents of this post should be old news to you. If not, fear not; Silverlight is designed to be easy to learn and easy to master. Let's take Image files as an example as we walk through the various cases.
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