When you build a windows forms project the EXE is always placed in either the
bin\debug or bin\release folder of your project directory. If your windows
project is on drive c: and is called "MyApp" then the path to your EXE for a
debug configuration would be:
c:\myapp\bin\debug\myapp.exe
if you XML file is in c:\myapp then your code will have to account for the
fact that during development your EXE is in the bin\debug folder. You can try
using:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.Applicati onBase
or
Application.StartupPath
to determine the path to your XML file.
"Cuperman" wrote:
Many thanks for you reply Jorge.
This seems like a bit of a 'work around'. I am new to 'win forms'
development and am sure there is a simple way to control the location
of files during deployment. For control however I do want the user to
be able to select a location when they install and then keep all the
installed files together. This way I wouldnt be hard coding the
location of the file, it would be in a sub folder of the application.
The specific problem is that during development the application seems
to reside in teh bin folder, but the exe is deployed one folder higher.
An alternative, would be to force my development environment to build
the exe and debug from that in the correct location perhaps?
Also, all of the DLL's that are bing distributed with my app (Crystal
etc) are being deployed in the root folder of the application and not
the bin folder. Is this part of the same issue?
Thanks again, Mark