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file in the same folder in which the bin folder is found? It seems crazy to me that during Debug that it is looking in the bin folder if it isn't putting it in that bin folder. Line that expects it to be in the bin\x86\Debug folder : XPathDocument doc = new XPathDocument(@"myfilename.xml"); During debugging, I get a DirectoryNotFoundException unless the file is in bin\x86\Debug How do I do what I want? Is there some setting I don't know about? Thanks, Reese
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http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=65821&SiteID=1 which gives the answer for VB (thanks to jkiley who posted there): sXML = "bcodes.xml" sXML = Replace(Replace(Application.StartupPath, "\bin\Debug", Space(0)), "\bin\Release", Space(0)) & "\xml\" & sXML Kiley appears to be putting the file into an \sml\ directory. Application.StartupPath seems to be the VB equivalent of C#'s Environment.CurrentDirectory. An alternative which I am using is to do a conditional compile: string xmlFilePath = @"XML\filename.xml"; #if DEBUG xmlFilePath = @"..\..\..\XML\filename.xml"; #endif It is just wrong that this is the way it has to be, creating kludges for a VS shortcoming. I was hoping someone would say that isn't the way it is, but apparently a kludge is needed. If I am mistaken, please post the information I was seeking. R [quoted text, click to view] "Reece" <neweducation@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4vPri.30755$2v1.24374@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... > Is there a way, during development, to make it so that you can have the > XML file in the same folder in which the bin folder is found? It seems > crazy to me that during Debug that it is looking in the bin folder if it > isn't putting it in that bin folder. > > Line that expects it to be in the bin\x86\Debug folder : XPathDocument > doc = new XPathDocument(@"myfilename.xml"); > > During debugging, I get a DirectoryNotFoundException unless the file is in > bin\x86\Debug > > How do I do what I want? Is there some setting I don't know about? > > Thanks, > > Reese >
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> > When this code goes live (put into production, or whatever) what will the > current directory be that the code executes "from?" In other words, how > will the code find this file in production? > > Once that is known then ideas for pointing to the file while debugging > will probably be easier to suggest. > > -- > -glenn- Current directory would be Environment.CurrentDirectory. The xml file would be located relative to that directory. I have already listed two working solutions for pointing to it both during debugging and runtime. But the fact that MSFT doesn't handle this transparently is seems like terrible design to me, and I was hoping that I was missing something. It doesn't do this nonsense when it comes to Content in XNA games, it does the obvious thing and copies over the relevant audio and image content files to the appropriate bin folder so that a kludge is not necessary. R [quoted text, click to view] "G.Doten" <gdoten@gmail.com> wrote in message news:eqx0fyG1HHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Reece wrote: >> Well I found >> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=65821&SiteID=1 >> which gives the answer for VB (thanks to jkiley who posted there): >> >> sXML = "bcodes.xml" >> >> sXML = Replace(Replace(Application.StartupPath, "\bin\Debug", Space(0)), >> "\bin\Release", Space(0)) & "\xml\" & sXML >> >> Kiley appears to be putting the file into an \sml\ directory. >> Application.StartupPath seems to be the VB equivalent of C#'s >> Environment.CurrentDirectory. >> >> An alternative which I am using is to do a conditional compile: >> >> string xmlFilePath = @"XML\filename.xml"; >> #if DEBUG >> xmlFilePath = @"..\..\..\XML\filename.xml"; >> #endif >> >> It is just wrong that this is the way it has to be, creating kludges for >> a VS shortcoming. I was hoping someone would say that isn't the way it >> is, but apparently a kludge is needed. If I am mistaken, please post the >> information I was seeking. >> >> R >> >> >> >> >> "Reece" <neweducation@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:4vPri.30755$2v1.24374@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... >>> Is there a way, during development, to make it so that you can have the >>> XML file in the same folder in which the bin folder is found? It seems >>> crazy to me that during Debug that it is looking in the bin folder if it >>> isn't putting it in that bin folder. >>> >>> Line that expects it to be in the bin\x86\Debug folder : XPathDocument >>> doc = new XPathDocument(@"myfilename.xml"); >>> >>> During debugging, I get a DirectoryNotFoundException unless the file is >>> in bin\x86\Debug >>> >>> How do I do what I want? Is there some setting I don't know about? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Reese >>> >> >>
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Reece wrote: > Well I found > http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=65821&SiteID=1 which > gives the answer for VB (thanks to jkiley who posted there): > > sXML = "bcodes.xml" > > sXML = Replace(Replace(Application.StartupPath, "\bin\Debug", Space(0)), > "\bin\Release", Space(0)) & "\xml\" & sXML > > Kiley appears to be putting the file into an \sml\ directory. > Application.StartupPath seems to be the VB equivalent of C#'s > Environment.CurrentDirectory. > > An alternative which I am using is to do a conditional compile: > > string xmlFilePath = @"XML\filename.xml"; > #if DEBUG > xmlFilePath = @"..\..\..\XML\filename.xml"; > #endif > > It is just wrong that this is the way it has to be, creating kludges for a > VS shortcoming. I was hoping someone would say that isn't the way it is, > but apparently a kludge is needed. If I am mistaken, please post the > information I was seeking. > > R > > > > > "Reece" <neweducation@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:4vPri.30755$2v1.24374@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... >> Is there a way, during development, to make it so that you can have the >> XML file in the same folder in which the bin folder is found? It seems >> crazy to me that during Debug that it is looking in the bin folder if it >> isn't putting it in that bin folder. >> >> Line that expects it to be in the bin\x86\Debug folder : XPathDocument >> doc = new XPathDocument(@"myfilename.xml"); >> >> During debugging, I get a DirectoryNotFoundException unless the file is in >> bin\x86\Debug >> >> How do I do what I want? Is there some setting I don't know about? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Reese >> > > When this code goes live (put into production, or whatever) what will the current directory be that the code executes "from?" In other words, how will the code find this file in production? Once that is known then ideas for pointing to the file while debugging will probably be easier to suggest. --
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Reece wrote: >> When this code goes live (put into production, or whatever) what will the >> current directory be that the code executes "from?" In other words, how >> will the code find this file in production? >> >> Once that is known then ideas for pointing to the file while debugging >> will probably be easier to suggest. >> >> -- >> -glenn- > > > Current directory would be Environment.CurrentDirectory. The xml file would > be located relative to that directory. I have already listed two working > solutions for pointing to it both during debugging and runtime. But the > fact that MSFT doesn't handle this transparently is seems like terrible > design to me, and I was hoping that I was missing something. It doesn't do > this nonsense when it comes to Content in XNA games, it does the obvious > thing and copies over the relevant audio and image content files to the > appropriate bin folder so that a kludge is not necessary. > > R > > > > "G.Doten" <gdoten@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:eqx0fyG1HHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Reece wrote: >>> Well I found >>> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=65821&SiteID=1 >>> which gives the answer for VB (thanks to jkiley who posted there): >>> >>> sXML = "bcodes.xml" >>> >>> sXML = Replace(Replace(Application.StartupPath, "\bin\Debug", Space(0)), >>> "\bin\Release", Space(0)) & "\xml\" & sXML >>> >>> Kiley appears to be putting the file into an \sml\ directory. >>> Application.StartupPath seems to be the VB equivalent of C#'s >>> Environment.CurrentDirectory. >>> >>> An alternative which I am using is to do a conditional compile: >>> >>> string xmlFilePath = @"XML\filename.xml"; >>> #if DEBUG >>> xmlFilePath = @"..\..\..\XML\filename.xml"; >>> #endif >>> >>> It is just wrong that this is the way it has to be, creating kludges for >>> a VS shortcoming. I was hoping someone would say that isn't the way it >>> is, but apparently a kludge is needed. If I am mistaken, please post the >>> information I was seeking. >>> >>> R >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> "Reece" <neweducation@yahoo.com> wrote in message >>> news:4vPri.30755$2v1.24374@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... >>>> Is there a way, during development, to make it so that you can have the >>>> XML file in the same folder in which the bin folder is found? It seems >>>> crazy to me that during Debug that it is looking in the bin folder if it >>>> isn't putting it in that bin folder. >>>> >>>> Line that expects it to be in the bin\x86\Debug folder : XPathDocument >>>> doc = new XPathDocument(@"myfilename.xml"); >>>> >>>> During debugging, I get a DirectoryNotFoundException unless the file is >>>> in bin\x86\Debug >>>> >>>> How do I do what I want? Is there some setting I don't know about? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Reese >>>> >>> > > What I've seen done (and what I do) in this case is to have a post-build event in Visual Studio that copies the file from wherever it lives during development to the directory it needs to be in when the code runs under the debugger. Just FYI: If you have the test capabilities in VS, and if you create a unit test for your code, then you can use the DeploymentItem attribute (I think that's it name) on the test case's method and VS' test engine will copy the file for you. --
Thanks, Glenn. At this point I think I will just keep my kludge, unless as
my app grows it becomes a problem that would make it more of a hassle than what you have offered here. But thanks for the ideas, which I will keep in mind. R [quoted text, click to view] > > What I've seen done (and what I do) in this case is to have a post-build > event in Visual Studio that copies the file from wherever it lives during > development to the directory it needs to be in when the code runs under > the debugger. > > Just FYI: If you have the test capabilities in VS, and if you create a > unit test for your code, then you can use the DeploymentItem attribute (I > think that's it name) on the test case's method and VS' test engine will > copy the file for you. > > -- > -glenn-
I discovered that the answer is to view the properties of the xml file in
question in the VS environment and select an appropriate option for the "Copy to output directory" property. The default seems to be "Do not copy". The output directory is the appropriate bin folder. Reece [quoted text, click to view] "Reece" <neweducation@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4vPri.30755$2v1.24374@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... > Is there a way, during development, to make it so that you can have the > XML file in the same folder in which the bin folder is found? It seems > crazy to me that during Debug that it is looking in the bin folder if it > isn't putting it in that bin folder. > > Line that expects it to be in the bin\x86\Debug folder : XPathDocument > doc = new XPathDocument(@"myfilename.xml"); > > During debugging, I get a DirectoryNotFoundException unless the file is in > bin\x86\Debug > > How do I do what I want? Is there some setting I don't know about? > > Thanks, > > Reece >
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