Question

In my MVC application I am trying to open a file for reading through StreamReader, the path the I’ve given to it is this, keeping the relative position of file from bin folder:

TextReader tr = new StreamReader("Content/files/text/email.txt");

But when I’m running it am getting this error over it:

Could not find a part of the path ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DevServer\10.0\Content\files\text\email.txt.

This is very confusing as I don’t know to how to stop it to stop reading the path from the root directory but read it from application root folder.

Answer 1

You should do this, if you’re talking about winforms application.

var tr = new StreamReader(Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, @"Content\files\text\email.txt"));

UPDATE:
You don’t need StreamReader for a web application. It’s very simple:

string text = new WebClient().DownloadString("URL_TO_WHEREEVER");