How to get relative path of a file in visual studio

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I am trying to get the path of an image file which I added in solution explorer in Visual Studio  but I couldn t get the relative path of that image  H is the file structure of my project     BulutDepoProject      FolderIcon         Folder ico         Main cs   I can get the image like this      C   Users  Tolga  Desktop  BulutDepo  BulutDepoProject  FolderIcon  Folder ico     But I should be able to get it with something like         FolderIcon  Folder ico    I guess I don t know the exact syntax of it so I cant fetch the image

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Omit the        var path     FolderIcon Folder ico        doesn t mean anything in terms of the file system  The only place I ve seen that correctly used is in a web app  where ASP NET replaces the tilde with the absolute path to the root of the application   You can typically assume the paths are relative to the folder where the EXE is located  Also  make sure that the image is specified as  content  and  copy if newer   copy always  in the properties tab in Visual Studio

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I m a little late  and I m not sure if this is what you re looking for  but I thought I d add it just in case someone else finds it useful   Suppose this is your file structure    BulutDepoProject      bin         Main exe      FolderIcon         Folder ico         Main cs   You need to write your path relative to the Main exe file  So  you want to access Folder ico  in your Main cs you can use   String path        FolderIcon  Folder ico    That seemed to work for me

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In Visual Studio please click  Folder ico  file in the Solution Explorer pane  Then you will see Properties pane  Change  Copy to Output Directory  behavior to  Copy if newer   This will make Visual Studio copy the file to the output bin directory    Now to get the file path using relative path just type   string pathToIcoFile   AppDomain CurrentDomain BaseDirectory      FolderIcon  Folder ico     Hope that helped

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I also met the same problem and I was able to get it through  So let me explain the steps I applied  I shall explain it according to your scenario   According to my method we need to use  Path  class and  Assembly  class in order to get the relative path   So first Import System IO and System Reflection in using statements   Then type the below given code line           var outPutDirectory   Path GetDirectoryName Assembly GetExecutingAssembly    CodeBase     Actually above given line stores the path of the output directory of your project  Here  output  directory refers to the Debug folder of your project    Now copy your FolderIcon directory in to the Debug folder  Then type the below given Line   var iconPath   Path Combine outPutDirectory   FolderIcon  Folder ico      Now this  iconPath   variable contains the entire path of your Folder ico  All you have to do is store it in a string variable  Use the line of code below for that   string icon path   new Uri iconPath   LocalPath    Now you can use this icon path string variable as your relative path to the icon   Thanks

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I think using this will be the easiest  new Uri  pack   application    FolderIcon     youImageICO     or this code will work  on any machine that if your folder is in your root project if you want to change it    just change this section         public static string bingPathToAppDir string localPath        string currentDir   Environment CurrentDirectory      DirectoryInfo directory   new DirectoryInfo          Path GetFullPath Path Combine currentDir              localPath         return directory ToString

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When it is the case that you want to use any kind of external file  there is certainly a way to put them in a folder within your project  but not as valid as getting them from resources  In a regular Visual Studio project  you should have a Resources resx file under the Properties section  if not  you can easily add your own Resource resx file  And add any kind of file in it  you can reach the walkthrough for adding resource files to your project here   After having resource files in your project  calling them is easy as this   var myIcon   Resources MyIconFile    Of course you should add the using Properties statement like this   using  lt namespace gt  Properties

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