It's verbose but also extremely flexible and toolable. You're discounting how easy it is to add arbitrary animations between these two states, or how you can vi

It's verbose but also extremely flexible and toolable. You're discounting how easy it is to add arbitrary animations between these two states, or how you can visualize them in Visual Studio without having to rebuild your app. You can also create your own triggers so that you can be "responsive" to any arbitrary event. > bmp Windows::WinForms::XAML::Imaging::Bitmap = ^new Windows::WinForms::XAML::Imaging::Bitmap(filestream) That must be an outdated example. That namespace doesn't even exist. You can add images like this: <Image Source="hello.jpg"/>