Menu Icon usage in WPF with NuGet Package WPF-Icons

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Menu Icon usage in WPF with NuGet Package WPF-Icons

RobDev 451

Hello All,

I'm attempting to create a menu for my app and I thought it would be nice if I were to add Icons to my menu items. So I found a NuGet package (WPF-Icons2.0.0) and added to my solution. Unfortunately, I now have no idea of how to specify which icon I want to use. I followed the instructions on the NuGet website (Link: https://www.nuget.org/packages/WPF-Icons ) on how to integrate the package into my solution and that worked. However, so far the code that I've written to choose the icon I want is shown next and it doesn't work:

<Menu Grid.Row="0">
        <MenuItem Header="Adjust Colours" >
            <i:Icon i:Name="close" />
        </MenuItem>
</Menu>

Does any body know how to access the different icons in the package?

All help gratefully received.

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Danny Nguyen (WICLOUD CORPORATION) 8,620 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

Hi @RobDev ,

Glad to hear you got it working.

The original XAML did not work because i:Name="close" only names the XAML element. It does not select which icon should be displayed.

For this package, the icon is selected through the Kind property. The value should include the icon_ prefix plus the icon name, for example:

<Menu Grid.Row="0">
    <MenuItem Header="Adjust Colours">
        <MenuItem.Icon>
            <i:Icon i:Kind="icon_close" />
        </MenuItem.Icon>
    </MenuItem>
</Menu>

So in this case, the important part is:

<i:Icon i:Kind="icon_close" />

Here, icon_close tells the WPF-Icons control to render the close icon.

You can also place the icon directly as you tested, but using MenuItem.Icon is the usual WPF pattern for showing an icon beside a menu item. You can read more about the WPF side in the MenuItem.Icon property, and the available Kind usage is described on the WPF-Icons NuGet page.

If you found my response helpful or informative, I would greatly appreciate it if you could follow this guidance or provide feedback.

Thank you.

RobDev 451 Reputation points

2026-07-06T13:26:55.68+00:00

Hi @Danny Nguyen (WICLOUD CORPORATION) ,

many thanks for your reply and your info. I realised the mistake I had made shortly after posting my question It's a pity that the WPF-Icons NuGet page didn't have the info you have provided, it would have saved me a lot of time and effort (and confusion).

Many thanks, once again.
Danny Nguyen (WICLOUD CORPORATION) 8,620 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-07-07T02:39:21.9266667+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. Happy coding!

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RobDev 451 Reputation points

2026-07-06T13:26:55.68+00:00

Hi @Danny Nguyen (WICLOUD CORPORATION) ,

many thanks for your reply and your info. I realised the mistake I had made shortly after posting my question It's a pity that the WPF-Icons NuGet page didn't have the info you have provided, it would have saved me a lot of time and effort (and confusion).

Many thanks, once again.
Danny Nguyen (WICLOUD CORPORATION) 8,620 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-07-07T02:39:21.9266667+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. Happy coding!

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RobDev 451

Hello All (again),

sorry to have bothered you but it seems that I didn't read the website info correctly. What I should have coded is:

<Menu Grid.Row="0">
        <MenuItem Header="Adjust Colours" >
            <i:Icon i:Kind="icon_close" />
        </MenuItem>
</Menu>

As the website says the 'Kind' property defines the icon symbol 'icon_' is the symbol prefix and 'close' is its name.

Anyway it all seems to work now.

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