I am making a project that will be put on a disc to use. This means that all of the files that I call upon have to be on that disc. How and where do I put my files to ensure that they will stay with the project? Does it go in the bin folder? And when I am calling on that file what file path do I use?
In general, the bin folder is not a place you should be storing anything that you want to persist with the project.
When you build, Visual Studio will copy the files needed to run the program into the bin folder, such as libraries and web.config or app.config files.
For other files you want included, add them to your project and set their build action property to Content:
Content - The file is not compiled, but is included in the Content output group.
For example, this setting is the default value for an .htm or other
kind of Web file.
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I have a WinForms application that uses 3 .dll Application Extensions. Two of them come from the KBCsv csv file parser extension, and the third is the MySQL Data extension.
Currently these files are automatically stored in the project's Debug folder along with the application itself. When I move the application to an external location, I have to keep these extensions in the same folder as the application or I get an error like:
Could not load file or assembly 'KBCsv, Version....' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
It would tidy up the desired folder that the application is to be located in if I could store these extensions in one folder, inside that folder. Any guidance as to how I could achieve this would be greatly appreciated.
In my current project I have a folder with several files that the application needs to function properly. The folder is in the bin/debug folder and with the line Application.StartupPath I can easily access the files. It couldn't be easier.
However, when I publish the application the files don't seem to be included in the project, at least not at the StartupPath.
So my question is: how am I supposed to add this folder to my published application?
First, you'll need to include those files in your project. Then click each file in the Solution Explorer and in the Properties Windows change the value for "Copy to Output Directory" to "Copy Always".
Is there a way to build a folder containing various resource files into a dll? The folder may contain sub-folders, and I want to keep the folder structure of these files so that I can access the files from the dll with relative path.
I'm using visual studio but it seems I can only add a resource file without sub-folders. Can you give me some suggestion on this problem?
Thanks.
I have added some files that I need to be downloaded to the Application start up path. So I set Build Action as content now the files have been copied some where
C:\Documents and Settings\TestUser.ANNAM\Local Settings\Apps\2.0\Data\HVDRBMY5.8AA\858AT9VM.TNP\test..tion_2d7cfc137d9c2c74_0001.0013_432bd4561850d290\Data
How can access file from the application. My problem since it is a dynamic path will it be same folder count so that we can use like ..\..\Data\ Some think like this
Application.UserAppDataPath gets the path for the application data of a user.
Application.StartupPath gives you the path for the executable file that started the application, not including the executable name.
Starting with one of these, you should be able to use System.IO to manipulate the paths until you get the folder where your data files are.
It seems that MsBuild creates a folder called, "BuildType" on the build server and this folder is where the .proj file is copied. In source control I have several files that are in the same folder as the build project file. I have a workspace mapped to this location.
I would like to be able to specify explicitly which files from this workspace location should be copied to the build machine. Is this possible?
Thanks!
You cannot do this on file level but if you organize your build type folder with subfolders you can cloak the folders that you want to exclude.