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Setting the Image.Source property in Silverlight XAML is pretty easy - just like you would think it would work...

<Image Source="/Assets/16_find.png" />

You can even easily bind it to the current data item using the following syntax

<Image Source="{Binding TypeImage}" /> 

Assuming TypeImage was a valid URI other other valid value

I recently ran into an issue when I wanted to do this in C# and set the value to a string URI.

The first thing I tried was myImage.source = "/Assets/16_find.png";

That generates a compile error because ImageSource isn't compatible with type string.

So how do yo use property to a string URI?  You can use the SetValue method  as you can see in the following example

imageType.SetValue(Image.SourceProperty,"/Assets/16_find.png");