Question

I am creating a class library, and i have created a folder called config in the solution directory. and i placed one xml in the folder.

How to load the xml file in my class functions?

I tried like below, its not loading

        XmlDocument contentxml = new XmlDocument();
        String configxmlfile = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.ToString() + "Config\\instruction.xml";
        contentxml.Load(configxmlfile);

And I want to bind the xml file with the dll, becuase i am going to upload the dll in another application and i will call my classes from the dll, and my class will look for the xml file information there.

Answer 1

In order to Embed a xml to the assembly

1. Right click the xml file and Select properties
2. In the Properties Pane Set the BuildAction as Embeded resource
So this Xml becomes a embeded resource when the application is compiled

Then you can read the xml from the assembly by the following code

   System.Reflection.Assembly _assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
   System.IO.Stream _xmlStream = _assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("[[YourNamespace]].[[XMLFileName.xml]]");
   System.IO.StreamReader _textStreamReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(_xmlStream);
   string xml = _textStreamReader.ReadToEnd();