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Vishal
Vishal

Reputation: 6378

Get relative path of XML File located in another project but Same Solution

I have found many Articles and Questions about finding an XML file but all of them are for Same Project.

Suppose I have my Project structure as shown below:

ABC       <------ Solution
|--ABC.Data         <------ Project
|  |--XMLFiles      <-------Folder
|     |--AA.xml
|
|--ABC.Client      <------ Project
|  |--ViewModels   <-------Folder
|     |-MainViewModel.cs

Now I would like to load AA.xml file in MainViewModel.cs using XDocument.Load(....path.....).

So, how can I get path?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3778

Answers (2)

Akshita
Akshita

Reputation: 867

you need a couple of settings to make your scenario work

first right click the xml file(or any file you want to access) and set 'Copy to Output Directory' to 'Copy Always' and when you build or publish the folder structure of that file(AA.xml in your case) will be created on bin or publish(web project) folder and you have simply have to write this code 

var path = HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath+"\\bin";//path to you bin

if you are using winforms 

var path = Application.StartupPath;//path to you bin

finally

var fullpath=path+"\\XMLFiles\\AA.xml";
XDocument.Load(fullpath) ;

however the better approach will be to create a Helper Class that will fetch the xml content for you application such as 

public static class XMLHelpers
{
 public static XMLDocument GetXML(string KEY)
 {
    string file="";
    switch(KEY)
    {
      case "AA": file=Path.Combine(file,"AA.txt");
      break;
    }
     var xmldoc=new XMLDocument();
     xmldoc.Load(file);
     return xmldoc;
 }
}

Upvotes: 1

Adil
Adil

Reputation: 148150

You will have to move back from the executing assembly folder on parent of ABC.Data and ABC.Client. For example the executing assembly is located in ABC.Client->ViewModels->Bin->Debug 

XDocument.Load("../../../../../ABC.Data/ABC.Data/AA.xml");

But practically I see no use of it as the project hierarchy wont be there when you deploy the application. If you have XML file that need to be accessed by multiple assemblies the simply put that xml file in Execution folder. All the assemblies will be able to access it.

You can also make a separate assembly that exposes the AA.xml file data for read and write for all other projects by adding reference of that assembly to those projects. I would prefer this method.

Upvotes: 1

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