registry key crashing my app

whenever i use any of those it gets the string as the path not as the text inside of the file

what i need is the text inside the file as the string

Yes; that's a 'relative path' all right.

It depends on whether the file will always be at an absolute location within the file system or whether it will be at the same location relative to the app itself.

In the former case, you have to specify the absolute path to the file.

In the latter case, there are various approaches depending on what type of application it is.

If it's windows forms app you could use:

string filePath = Application.StartupPath + @"\values\Your-Room-Here.txt";

Otherwise you could use:

my app find the text file like this


 string textfile= File.ReadAllText(@"values\Your-Room-Here.txt");


this is the exact line when the app is run normaly its all good

but at startup it trys to find the file in c:/win32/

i need the file to be located in the way it is now for the app to run from anywhere

anyway to fix this  

In this line:

string text = File.ReadAllText("somefile.txt");

the current directory would be searched for somefile.txt as a full path is not specified. A full path would be something like c:\mydocuments\somefile.txt.

I wondered whether this might explain why the file couldn't be found when the app is started from the auto launch folder?

The only thing I can think of is that when you're starting the app normally you're not specifying the file's full path because it's in the same folder as the executable.

However, when the app is started using auto launch you will need to specify the full path as the start-up folder will be different.