I have written a wpf application that does some work on a dictionary based on user interaction with the ui. I save the changes made to the dictionary to a txt file that I have manually created inside my solution.
I now want to deploy my application and make it installable and usable on another machine. For this purpose, I have created a Setup project with the Visual Studio Setup template. After the installation on my machine, the program crashed. I suspect this was because of the file not being accessible.
My question is how can I get my project to ship with an empty text file which will be present in the client's computer and hold the changes made to the dictionary in it? I am aiming to use the txt file that I will ship with my project withing the setup.
public Dictionary<string, string> LoadDictionary()
{
Dictionary<string, string> dictionary = new Dictionary<string, string>();
if (File.Exists(FilePath))
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(FilePath))
{
string line;
while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
{
string[] parts = line.Split('=');
if (parts.Length == 2)
{
string key = parts[0];
string value = parts[1];
dictionary[key] = value;
}
}
}
}
return dictionary;
}
This is the load method I use to load my dictionary. The filepath is no issue when the text file is present in the solution directory, but how can I ensure that the program always gets the path that belongs to the txt file that comes within the installer?
string installationFolder = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
string filePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(installationFolder, "Logs.txt");
InstallationFolder = installationFolder;
FilePath = filePath;
This is how the paths get initialised within the MainWindow() c onstructor of my app. FilePath and InstallationFolder are string properties, defined outside of the MainWindow() constructor.
