Hi

I am making an xml comment file with the help of sandCastle and help file builder.

when I am finished my project I want to include it into my program. So when the user loads up my windows application there is a on the menu strip a button they click that loads up this documentation.chm file.

So in my project I made a separate folder called "documentation" and put my file in there. Now I want to use Process.Start() to open up that file.

However I don't know how to get the relative path for that documentation since I know hardcover the path in won't work once I move of my computer.

I only can find stuff to find the bin directory and stuff like that.

Thanks

You can typically get away with using a path relative to the application's runtime directory, the bin folder. So if you have a documentation folder next to the bin folder, this should work: "..\documentation\helpfile.chm".

-Peter
compiledthoughts.com

Peter's given you the correct info. Because the executable for a C# program resides in the bin folder for the application, a call to:

GetCurrentDirectory()

will return a string that gives you the current working directory for the application. It would be a simple thing to place your doc folder off this (bin) working directory.

Dr. Purdum


Jack Purdum, Ph.D.
Author: Beginning C# 3.0: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (and 14 other programming texts)