In C# Windows Forms Application, how to have a path to resources folder?

Most usually, you don't need this path. It is embedded resource or just the file copied in the sub-directory of the project's output directory? (And why?) In all cases, this is not a problem at all.
—SA

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Tejas Vaishnav · Answer 1 · 2014-12-31T21:44:00

Solution 3

Can you please use Application.StartupPath to get current execution path of your application

By using System.Reflection and System.IO you can also find path like this...

C#

string assmblypath = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location;
string appPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(assmblypath);

Posted 31-Dec-14 21:44pm

Tejas Vaishnav

Updated 31-Dec-14 23:17pm

v2

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2014-12-31T08:16:00

You already got an answer, but I'll give you an alternative, a more universal method. Please see my past answer: How to find my programs directory[^].

Please read my explanation on why you want to prefer this way.

Now, you could totally get rid of the file location problems and dealing with files themselves if you used embedded resources via .resx resource node. You should better used "Add Existing File" for adding the resource, In this case, the file is added to the project (as a file and its reference to the project file) and the reference in the resource file; and auto-generated C# is created, with the ready-to-use static property. If the type of your resource is not known to the system, the array of byte type will be used, which you can use for reading the resource form a memory stream. It would work great, but if, of course, your audio files are not too big.

—SA

Andrea Feduzzi · Answer 3 · 2014-12-31T03:29:00

Solution 1

can you explain better please?
Anyway you can you different method like, for example.

the user can select directory --> openFolderDialog
and you can store in a file, db or when yuo want the openFolderDialog.selectedPath.

maybe that is what was you looking for

Posted 31-Dec-14 3:29am

Andrea Feduzzi

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BillWoodruff 31-Dec-14 11:19am

Requests for clarification from the OP should be asked as comments, not posted as a solution.

Sanket Saxena · Answer 4 · 2014-12-31T23:30:00

Solution 4

Simply you need to use:

C#

Properties.Resources.<your filename>

Posted 31-Dec-14 23:30pm

Sanket Saxena

Updated 31-Dec-14 23:31pm

v3