I need to get VS application path.
Hi! In my windows forms application I had added a image file.
Now I want to get the full path of this image file.
Any idea how can i implement it?
As Cody Gray pointed out, if you have added the image as a resource, you can access it in code via the applicable image property in the My.Resources class.
However, if you have added the image file as just a regular file included in your project, you need to set its "Copy to Output Directory" property to either "Copy if newer" or "Copy Always". That way, the file will be copied to your project's bin folder when it is built. Then your code can find it by looking in the executable folder. You could just assume it's in the current directory, but it would be safer to use something like system.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location to get the full path.
Related
Recently I made an application that has lots of PDF files in it and I made a setup for it using Inno Setup Compiler. In the setup, I allowed people to change where they want to install the app. For opening my PDF files, I used: system.diagnostics.process.start("My pdf.pdf")
My problem is that in the code above, I put drive "C:" and when my user changed the install directory to drive "D:" the pdf's did not work and the error showed that "Cannot find the specific file". My question is that is there a way to just put the name of "computer" or "a drive" in the code above, not the specific name of the pdf, and let the computer find the file itself?
You seem to be asking for an opposite of what you actually want to achieve.
I assume you are installing files with known names. What you do not know is the directory of the files.
From your description I assume that your actual code is like:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\My pdf.pdf")
But when the user chooses a different location (directory) for your application, the above code with a hard-coded absolute path fails.
If your application installs to the same directory as the PDFs, just use a relative path (in this case just a file name without any path). It makes an operating system look to the current working directory, which will typically be an application directory.
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("My pdf.pdf")
Or to make it more reliable, make it explicitly look to the application directory. For that use Application.StartupPath:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(
System.IO.Path.Combine(System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath, "My pdf.pdf"))
See also Get program path in VB.NET?
I am running Cincom VisualWorks version 7.9.1 in Windows 8. When I open the class browser and view a library class, it fails to display the source, instead displaying an error comment like this:
" ***This is decompiled code.***
This may reflect a problem with the configuration of your image and its sources and changes files.
Please refer to the documentation and the settings tool for help in setting up the proper source
code files."
I have confirmed that the home path is pointing to the correct directory. How can I fix this?
The answer to this question depends on what code you're looking at. In VisualWorks, source code can be stored in a number of different places. For classes that are present in a clean VisualWorks image with no other code loaded, the source is in a file called visual.sou found in the image directory of the installation directory. As you mentioned, you need to make sure the home path is pointing to the correct directory. It doesn't point at the image directory itself but the directory above - for example, it would be C:\Program Files (x86)\Cincom\vw7.9.1 not C:\Program Files (x86)\Cincom\vw7.9.1\image.
For parcels you loaded, the source code is in a .pst file associated with the parcel. For any code you load from Store or write yourself, the source is in a .cha file in the same directory as your .im file and with the same name. If your image is visual.im then your code is stored in visual.cha.
You need to be very careful about the versions of the files you use. The visual.im file is tightly coupled to the visual.sou file and contains offsets into the .sou file. If you're using a visual.im from another version of VisualWorks, those offsets into the .sou file may not be correct and may produce this problem.
I hope this helps.
I already have this code from another question on this website.
Help.ShowHelp(ParentForm,
("C:\Users\Beaudean\Desktop\Help.chm"),HelpNavigator.TableOfContents, Nothing)
That works fine except i need the location of the chm help file to point to "my.resources" where it exists because i need to install my program but in that code example it only works with strings?
Thanks you :)
You cannot make this work. The .chm help file viewer is an external program, hh.exe. It doesn't know anything about managed resources, it needs a .chm file on disk.
Setup your project so that the .chm file is available in your build directory. Project + Add Existing Item and pick your .chm file. Select the added file and set its Build property to Content (so it gets installed with the rest of your files) and its Copy to Output Directory to "Copy if Newer" (so it gets copied to your build directory).
And modify your code so it can always find that file:
Dim path = System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "Help.chm")
Help.ShowHelp(ParentForm, path, HelpNavigator.TableOfContents)
I have a problem using Intellij Idea.
I am absolutely unable to load text file as InputStream - it doesnt matter where do I put the file (main/java, main/resources...) it just can't find the file - in Eclipse everything works just fine.
I tried setings->compiler->resource patterns and added ?*.txt but that doesn't seem to work either.
Any help is appreciated.
If you load it as a File, make sure that Working Directory is properly set in IDEA Run/Debug Configuration, since it's the default directory where Java will look for a file when you try to access it like new File("file.txt"). Working directory should be set to the directory of your project containing .txt files.
If you load files as a classpath resource, then they should reside somewhere under Source root and will be copied to the classpath according to Settings | Compiler | Resource Patterns.
If you can't get it working, upload your project somewhere including IDEA project files so that we can point to your mistake.
Look at the image, notice that the txt files are in the project root, and not the source folders (in blue).
If you open the Project Structure dialog, and click on Modules and select your module - are the correct folders marked as Source Folders on the sources tab?
Link for how to get to Project Structure dialog
Also, if you print out the absolute path of that file you are trying to read, is that anywhere near where you expect it to be?
An easy way to figure out the same would be to try creating a file in the same fashion and see where it gets created in your project. You can put your input file at the same location and it should work just fine (if it doesn't, you should check your resource pattern which might be causing the file to be not copied over in the build output).
This method actually gives you the working directory of your intellij settings which is pointed out in the accepted answer. Just sharing as I had similar trouble and I figured out this way. :)
I have added an XML file (File.xml) into a project (I can see it in the Solution Explorer), it resides at the root directory level of the project i.e. the same level as the VB program (.vb), the bin directory and the References directory etc..
I try accessing it using XmlDocument.Load("File.xml") ... but it doesn't find it. I get
A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in System.Xml.dll
Any idea where the file is or how I 'address' it?
Thanks for any help
Oliver
Is the file copied to the output directory? Click on the file, look at the properties in the VS editor, and set the "Build Action" to Content and "Copy to Output Directory" to either "Copy always" or "Copy if newer" (depending on what you need).
In the Publish property go to
Application Files --> Look for the XML file: If the publish status = Data File, then the File will be copied to the Application DATA folder.
If you want the xml to be inside the programs directory change the publish status to: Include. This will do the trick.
Try this:
XmlDocument.LoadXml(System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(Application.StartupPath & "\File.xml"))
It's worth a shot I guess. My question: is it possible to edit a file that's placed in the project?