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Asked: 2026-06-12T09:01:25+00:00

My exe’s path is c:\dev\source\project1\bin\debug\app.exe but my XML file is located at c:\dev\source\project1\file.xml How

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My exe’s path is c:\dev\source\project1\bin\debug\app.exe

but my XML file is located at c:\dev\source\project1\file.xml

How can I load the XML file at runtime, right now I have been hard-coding the absolute url, but I don’t want to do it this way.

What happens in the scenario if I change the location or the end-user moves the file to another location, for example, file.xml gets moved to a sub-directory under project1 called sub, would I have to change things again. Is there way to not have to worry about were the file is located?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In your Solution Explorer go to the XML file set Copy to Output Directory to Copy Always or Copy if Newer This will put a copy of the xml file in c:\dev\source\project1\bin\debug\ and have your program reference the version that is in the same folder as the exe.

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