How to get relative path of a file in visual studio?

Question

I am trying to get the path of an image file which I added in solution explorer in Visual Studio, but I couldn't get the relative path of that image. H is the file structure of my project:

 /BulutDepoProject     /FolderIcon         Folder.ico         Main.cs 

I can get the image like this :

"C:\\Users\\Tolga\\Desktop\\BulutDepo\\BulutDepoProject\\FolderIcon\\Folder.ico"  

But I should be able to get it with something like :

"~\\FolderIcon\\Folder.ico" 

I guess I don't know the exact syntax of it so I cant fetch the image. :(

Answer 1

When it is the case that you want to use any kind of external file, there is certainly a way to put them in a folder within your project, but not as valid as getting them from resources. In a regular Visual Studio project, you should have a Resources.resx file under the Properties section, if not, you can easily add your own Resource.resx file. And add any kind of file in it, you can reach the walkthrough for adding resource files to your project here.

After having resource files in your project, calling them is easy as this:

var myIcon = Resources.MyIconFile; 

Of course you should add the using Properties statement like this:

using <namespace>.Properties;