Creating an ImageBrush in Blend has always been a multi-step process. Blend 3 makes a few improvements in the steps necessary for creating a ImageBrush. You can still use the traditional way if you desire.
Copy an Image to Clipboard
The first step in making making an ImageBrush is to copy a image to the clipboard. For example, grab a picture from Word 2007 (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Copy picture in Word 2007.
Paste Image into Resource Dictionary in Blend 3
Open Blend 3 and select the Resources tab. Choose the resource area where the ImageBrush will be defined. In my example (see Figure 2) I will add it to the Application.Resources within the App.xaml file. Right-click the App.xaml file and choose Paste.
Figure 2: Paste into Resources tab.
Blend adds the following line (see Figure 3) of XAML to the App.xaml file.
Figure 3: ImageBrush added to XAML
Image Added to Project
Blend also adds the image to your project. In my example the new image is named Image2.png (see Figure 4).
Figure 4: Image automatically added to Project.
In this example I copied my image from Word. Since there was no filename available to Blend a default name was chosen. To retain the original image file name copy the picture from Windows Explorer.
