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Egon
Egon

Reputation: 3848

where are the project assets stored in wp7?

I wanted to access a few of my assets ... in particular, my app comes with a bunch of text files and mp3 files.

They are not downloaded from the net later, but come with the app itself. so I was wondering how the isolated storage comes into the picture if at all ?

all I want to do is read the text file / play the mp3 file. And these files come with the app itself. I know the location of the files relative to the project folder. some thing like :

project/textFiles/textFile1.txt

...

project/mp3Files/mp3File1.txt

...

how do I access these files ? the general filestream / streamreader ....doesn't seem to be working.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1235

Answers (3)

Todd Main
Todd Main

Reputation: 29153

Mark your .txt files as "Content" and then use code like the following:

Uri uriMyFile = new Uri("myfilename.txt",UriKind.relative);
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader((Application.GetResourcesStream(uriMyFile)).Stream);

the application class provides access to the appropriate stream.

Upvotes: 1

Praetorian
Praetorian

Reputation: 109189

Say you have a Resources folder under your project's root directory. Make sure that the Build Action (in the Properties window) for all files under this folder that you want to access is set to Content and the Copy to Output Directory option is set to Copy if Newer or Copy Always.

I've never tried to read a text file, but I am loading an XML file that is packaged with my app as follows:

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load( "Resources/MyData.xml" );

I think I remember having problems if I used a leading / in the path.

Upvotes: 1

Joel Martinez
Joel Martinez

Reputation: 47779

they get packaged up into the .xap file which gets deployed

Upvotes: -1

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