Question

I use Microsoft Visual Studio test Tools assembly for unit testing.

And from one of my unit tests, I test a class which loads a text file.

The problem is, at the time the unit test runs, the root directory of becoms:

C:\Users\Foo\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\MyProject\TestResults\Foo_HisComputer 2012-07-03 13_50_45\Out

And that is why the file is not found.

How can I enforce the unit test runtime to use the main application’s root path but not the TestResults folder which it generates after each Unit Test run?

Answer 1

You can add the text file to the output :

[TestClass]
[DeploymentItem("textfile.txt")]
public class BaseUnitTest
{
}

You need to set the text file in the project and copy it to the ouput folder.

Otherwise, maybe this link can help you :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms243187.aspx