The name 'InitializeComponent' does not exist in the current context : strange behaviour - wpf

Question

I have created very small WPF application and facing one problem. I have below classes.
Employee.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace StaticResourceVsDynamicResource
{
public class Employee
{
public string strName;
public int nId;
public Employee()
{
strName = "Default name";
nId = -1;
}
public string Name
{
get{return strName;}set{strName = value;}
}
public int ID
{
get{return nId;}set{nId = value;}
}
}
}
MainWindow.xamal.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
namespace StaticResourceVsDynamicResource
{
/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
this.Resources["objEmployee"] = new Employee { Name = "Changed employee", ID = 100};
this.Resources.Add("myBrush",new SolidColorBrush(SystemColors.GrayTextColor));
}
}
}
MainWindow.xamal
<Window x:Class="StaticResourceVsDynamicResource.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:StaticResourceVsDynamicResource"
xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Window.Resources>
<x:ArrayExtension Type="{x:Type sys:String}" x:Key="objNames">
<sys:String>A1</sys:String>
<sys:String>A2</sys:String>
</x:ArrayExtension>
<local:Employee x:Key="objEmployee"></local:Employee>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
<Grid Height="100" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="281,12,0,0" Name="grid3" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="200" >
<ComboBox ItemsSource="{StaticResource ResourceKey=objNames}" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="48,37,0,0" Name="comboBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
Above xaml code is intresting. When I build this code I didn't get any error. For whatever reason I just shuffle position of <x:ArrayExtension> and <local:Employee> and I start getting below error.
The name 'InitializeComponent' does not exist in the current context
When I am declaring <local:Employee> before <x:ArrayExtenion> then only I am getting this error. I am sure this has to do something with namespace, but I am not able to figure it out. See the below code which is causing compilation error.
<Window.Resources>
<local:Employee x:Key="objEmployee"></local:Employee>
<x:ArrayExtension Type="{x:Type sys:String}" x:Key="objNames">
<sys:String>A1</sys:String>
<sys:String>A2</sys:String>
</x:ArrayExtension>
</Window.Resources>
Can anyone help? Seems to be a strange problem but it is...
Regards,
Hemant

Answer 1

I've had the same problem. The way I resolved it was by changing the build action of the XAML file to Page.
To credit the source where I found the solution:
http://blog.mahop.net/post/Compile-Error-for-WPF-Files-The-name-InitializeComponent-does-not-exist-in-the-current-context.aspx