My.Resources

Visual Studio and the .NET Framework allow including resources within your application. Basically resources are different kinds of information that would be usually available from external files, such as sounds, images, and text. You can embed in your application all resources you want using My.Resources and the Resources Designer.

WPF Resources

Things behave little differently in WPF and Silverlight applications. Because of their particular infrastructure, embedding resources using the Resources Designer is a practice that you must avoid. To understand how WPF resources work, take a look at the official page in the MSDN Library: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms750613(VS.100).aspx.

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