Question

I have a file that I store some site links. Until now I used:

string path = Environment.CurrentDirectory + "/forumlinks.txt";

But I want to store the file in the release folder so I can change it and I know it will change permanently for the user.

So I changed to this:

string path = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) + @"/forumlinks.txt";

But I get an exception:

System.IO.FileNotFoundException.

My question: is this the right way to get the file from the release folder? Should I rethink that and store him in a different place? If so I will be glad to hear about it.

Answer 1

Hard coding a path to your code release folder is dangerous. What if you want to build in debug mode for some reason? What happens when you want to deploy your program?

A better choice would be to use the environment’s application data folder. This will be different for each user, so it means that each user can have their own version of the file.

See this post for details of how to get the application data folder.