C# whats the file path within Resource?

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If a file located on Properties.Resouce, what the path about it?

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string strCon ="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + filepath +"....

whats the filepath should to write down?

Posted 12-Sep-10 21:49pm

Kean(cn)

Updated 18-Mar-15 18:23pm

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Samuel Cherinet · Answer 1 · 2010-09-13T05:46:00

by default files in the project resource are embedded in the assembly. so you can access them as byte[] using the code

[ProjectName].[Resources].[FileName]

which in your case won't work because you need the file path.So you have to explicitly tell the compiler to copy the file to the application directory. Just select the file in the resources folder, inside the solution explorer, right click and "Properties". That would give you an option "Copy to output directory" set it to "Copy always". then when you build your application it would pop up in the output directory under "Resources" folder.
Modify your code as below to accommodate the changes

string strCon ="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=&quot; + System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath+"\\Resources\\"+[filename]+"....

hope that helped
good luck

Sunasara Imdadhusen · Answer 2 · 2010-09-12T22:38:00

Solution 1

Hi Kean,

You can access the file which is inside the Properties.Resouce using following code:

..\bin\Debug\{YourFileName}

Please do let me know, if you have any doubt.
Please provide Vote if this would be helpful to you.

Thanks,
Imdadhusen

Posted 12-Sep-10 22:38pm

Sunasara Imdadhusen

Updated 12-Sep-10 23:12pm

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Abhishek Sur 13-Sep-10 5:44am

I think you shouldn't be putting a database file within Properties folder.
It is better to put it in Debug folder directly.

Kean(cn) 13-Sep-10 22:36pm

I want set the program to user only one file, dont contain DLL or other files, so i put the small database file in the Resource, and the program just read the file to a Dataset, not write or update it.