Question

I tried to look around for a best-practice to load an XML-File from the startup project in a C#-Solution.

I am building a library which should be able to load the following XML from the startup-project which is using the library. If possible the XML should NOT be visible to the enduser.
The XML-File uses a DTD, so I’m not sure if I could use the app.config to do this. Here an example of such an XML-File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE filter SYSTEM "filters.dtd">

<filter>
    <controltype-criteria type="Button">
        <event>TouchDown</event>
    </controltype-criteria>
</filter>

Does anyone have a recommendation how to do this?

Thank you for your reply! 🙂

Answer 1

Add it as a embedded resource to your assembly (startup project) and read it from there. Google knows the details.