How do I work with images in a portable class libr

Question

I am working on a first PCL that targets : WSA (Windows Store Application), WPF,WP7,WP8. We can say that it is a rolerdex kind of application, you have contacts , they have contact details and images. (it's not, but I can't give details about the application, so I am using a very simple example instead). Here are some of my questions :)

1. Should I have the images in the PCL?

If yes:

1. How do reference the image for usage in WSA?
2. How do I best solve scaling with the scale qualifiers etc. when used across different projects?

I am not using a database and the images are not downloaded from an external service- I would like to keep the images (not many really) locally, in the app or in the PCL.

EDIT: I just want to display images. That's it. It's a static rolerdex, you can't add new people. I just want to display 5 number of people and their image (in the PCL). How do I reference the images if it's a Windows Store Application?

I have a binding and the DataContext is set to a ViewModel in the PCL. The ViewModel aggregates the data to be displayed from the models. The property I've bound against is MyImage. Ignoring the other platforms, how would the Uri look like? Everything else works fine.

I really just want help with these three questions, although I really appreciate all the answers!!!

Answer 1

Most people have already said and the answer is also "Not possible". UI elements in PCL goes against the philosophy of PCL, which should be usable as is across platforms that you are targetting.

Here's what MSDN has to say on PCL - "the Portable Class Library project doesn't contain any UI components because of behavioral differences between the UIs of different devices" (from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg597391.aspx)

hope this helps