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qwertyuywertwer
qwertyuywertwer

Reputation: 271

How to create a Relative File Path

I have a link which im reading into stream reader - @"C:\Users\James\Desktop\tweets.txt"

I have the text file in the same folder as the source code and .exe

How would i change '@"C:\Users\James\Desktop\tweets.txt"' to a relative file path?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1198

Answers (3)

merce_00
merce_00

Reputation: 299

You can use the Application.StartupPath property:

using System.Windows.Forms;
...
string myApplicationPath = Application.StartupPath;

Upvotes: 0

Haris Hasan
Haris Hasan

Reputation: 30127

You can get the current assembly/exe path by using Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location . Once you get that you can easily append the text file name in the path to access your text file

You can also get the path of folder which contains your exe by using System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName (Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)

As mentioned by Boo you can do 

Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName (Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location), "Text File Name");

Upvotes: 1

keyboardP
keyboardP

Reputation: 69392

Do you mean relative path? You could try this:

Uri srFile = new Uri(@"C:\Users\James\Desktop\tweets.txt");

Uri projFile= new Uri(@"C:\MyprojectDirectory\Project\...");



Uri relativePath = projFile.MakeRelativeUri(srFile);

Upvotes: 1

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