How to point to a file stored in project folder? WPF

Question

At the moment I'm pointing to a file on my machine, but I'm wondering how I would point the string to a folder I created within the project. For example the path to the folder in visual studio is,

C:\Users\Drian Darley\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\KinectBVversion1\KinectKickboxingBVversion1\Gesture\jabtwo.xml 

I have heard of pack URI's, would that suit in this situation or how would I set one up?

This is how it is pointing to the file at present, which is not ideal as it has to point to a file stored locally on the machine.

private string gesturefile =
            Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments) + "\\GesturePak\\wave.xml";

Answer 1

Try like this

string gesturefile= Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, @"GesturePak\wave.xml");

Examples:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fyy7a5kt(v=vs.110).aspx http://www.dotnetperls.com/path

or

Use Path.GetFullPath

Example : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.getfullpath.aspx

Answer 2

If you do not want to store files separately you need to set their Build Action to Resource (in the Properties window in Visual Studio) and access them by a Pack URI:

var uri = new Uri("pack://application:,,,/GesturePAK/wave.xml");
var resourceStream = Application.GetResourceStream(uri).Stream;

Now you can access the content of the XML file by resourceStream. For example reading the file content into a string could be done like this:

string content;
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(resourceStream, Encoding.UTF8))
{
    content = reader.ReadToEnd();
}

Answer 3

for example, if you create a folder called "Images" within your project, then you can point like:

string address="Images/dukenukem.jpg";