Read files from a Folder present in project

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I have a C  project  Windows Console Application   I have created a folder named Data inside project  There are two text files inside folder Data   How can I read the text files from  Data  folder  I tried below things   string   files   File ReadAllLines   Data Names txt     It is thowing error that file not found   I have checked some Stackoverflow answers posted before and none of then are working for me   How can I proceed  Thanks

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below code should work   string path   Path Combine Path GetDirectoryName Assembly GetExecutingAssembly   Location     Data Names txt    string   files   File ReadAllLines path

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This was helpful for me  if you use the   var dir   Directory GetCurrentDirectory     the path fill be beyond the current folder  it will incluide this path  bin debug What I recommend you  is that you can use the   string dir   Directory GetParent Directory GetCurrentDirectory    Parent Parent FullName   then print the dir value and verify the path is giving you

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I have a C  project  Windows Console Application   I have created a folder named Images inside project  There is one ico file called MyIcon ico  I accessed MyIcon ico inside Images folder like below   this Icon   new Icon         Images MyIcon ico

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string myFile  File ReadAllLines Application StartupPath ToString                Data myTxtFile txt

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For Xamarin iOS you can use the following code to get contents of the file if file exists   var documents   Environment GetFolderPath Environment SpecialFolder MyDocuments   var filename   Path Combine documents   xyz json    if  File Exists filename     var text  System IO File ReadAllText filename

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it depends where is your Data folder  To get the directory where the  exe file is   AppDomain CurrentDomain BaseDirectory   To get the current directory   Environment CurrentDirectory   Then you can concatenate your directory path     Data Names txt

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Copy Always to output directory is set then try the following    Directory SetCurrentDirectory AppDomain CurrentDomain BaseDirectory    String Root   Directory GetCurrentDirectory

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Use this Code for read all files in folder and sub-folders also  class Program       static void Main string   args                 getfiles get   new getfiles            List lt string gt  files    get GetAllFiles   D  Document             foreach string f in files                        Console WriteLine f                       Console Read               class getfiles       public List lt string gt  GetAllFiles string sDirt                List lt string gt  files   new List lt string gt              try                       foreach  string file in Directory GetFiles sDirt                                 files Add file                             foreach  string fl in Directory GetDirectories sDirt                                 files AddRange GetAllFiles fl                                    catch  Exception ex                         Console WriteLine ex Message                        return files

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If you need to get all the files in the folder named  Data   just code it as below  string   Documents   System IO Directory GetFiles        Data       Now the  Documents  consists of array of complete object name of two text files in the  Data  folder  Data

[c#] Read files from a Folder present in project

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