title: How to get image from assets folder in windows phone 8.1 and assign it to a model's property
body: <p>I have a model with property as BitmapImage and I am trying to load and image from root -> Assets -> Icons folder and set it to this property . But always gives me the error "Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined."
  We originally created this project in WP8.0 and then targeted it to 8.1</p>
  
  <pre><code>                BitmapImage bi = new BitmapImage();
                  bi.UriSource = new Uri(@"../Assets/Icons/noprofilepic.png", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);
                  bi.CreateOptions = BitmapCreateOptions.BackgroundCreation;
                  BuddyImage = bi;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Property is defined as :</p>
  
  <pre><code>    private BitmapImage _BuddyImage;
      public BitmapImage BuddyImage
      {
          get { return _BuddyImage; }
          set { _BuddyImage = value; RaisePropertyChanged("BuddyImage"); }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>xaml control looks like below</p>
  
  <pre><code>   &lt;Image Source="{Binding BuddyImage}" Width="75" Height="75" Stretch="Uniform"/&gt;
  </code></pre>