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Paths and locations for different situations...

I have been writing some C# classes, which are in turn used by Windows
forms, web services, asp.net pages, you name it. The shared classes
have started to require some 'content files' (in VS deployment lingo)
and places to save temp files.

This is not an issue when one know that the class is going to be used
only under a Windows Forms/Console application, but it becomes quite
the issue when the class might be used under the web environments too.

For small files, I have been sugested (and have implemented in some
cases) embeded resources. They have the advantage that one doesn't
need to mess with where they are, regardless of the environment. But
this does not solve the issue of where to write tmp files out from
classes that will be in the different environments.

I have also been told to use the 'deployment tools' to add this
files/folders as content. This does not play nice with library
classes. Writing out to an absolute path of c:\tmp is not always
welcomed, and finding where the heck is that config xml that this
class is using is pure hell.

I guess my quest is to find out how to best reference this files.
Relative referencing of some sort would seem like a desirable
solution... the problem is finding the point of reference to be used
(web paths and system paths don't mix).

I'd be glad to hear everyones thoughts on the topic.

Daniel.
Nov 15 '05 #1
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