title: How to handle Empty Uri's for Path Binding to an Image Source
body: <p>how can I initialize an Uri object in an empty state.</p>
  
  <p>First thought would be to do something like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>//does not work
  Uri myUri = Uri.Empty
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This one does also not work</p>
  
  <pre><code>Uri myUri = new Uri(string.Empty)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The reason is I store my image path in the db and in case there is no image defined I have a blank database record.</p>
  
  <p>I know that there are ways to handle this with a converter and return a default blank image Uri in case the image_path is empty...</p>
  
  <p>How do I handle the binding to my ViewModel Uri Property best?</p>
  
  <p>Is the converter the way to go and how do you handle it if you would have like many different default images which should be returned...</p>