Can I put a windows (.bat ) file inside the resources folder of a Visual studio C# project?

Question

Although one can run a batch file form c: location , i would like to know if its possible to have the .bat file inside the resources folder .

I tried this

Process p = new Process;
p.StartInfo.FileName = @"\Resources\batchfile.bat";

and this

p.StartInfo.FileName = @"\Resources\batchfile";

Both don't work .

Answer 1

string location;

Process p = new Process;

location = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location)
+@"\Resources\batchfile.bat";

p.StartInfo.FileName = location;

Answer 2

You can put a batch file in whatever file-system location you want.

It looks like the path to your batch file is wrong, though. Paths with a leading backslash are interpreted relative to the root directory of the current drive. That's probably not where your batch file is, though. It's probably in the Resources subdirectory of your application's own installation folder. At the very least, remove the leading backslashes from those strings. Then they will be interpreted relative to your process's current working directory.

It would be better to use a fully qualified path, though. The current working directory has a tendency to change when you're not expecting.