Hi guys,

Sorry for my stupid questions.

I want to use Clickonce to deploy my vb .net application.

Besides the exe, I need to deploy some files for it touse e.g. help file, xsd ...

I search around the net and found that I need to select these files as "data file" and they should deploy to the client's pc's "Datadirectory".

However,how can I get the path of these files? (so i can reference them and check whether it works or not?)

OK

First of all inorder to add them as data files, you adds them to the solution then goes to the publish screen click on application files and then change the publish status of those files to data files

Then inorder to access them from within the application here is the code:

Application.UserAppDataPath

The rest of the path is similar to the path in your solution

Itzik Katzav

OK

First of all inorder to add them as data files, you adds them to the solution then goes to the publish screen click on application files and then change the publish status of those files to data files

Then inorder to access them from within the application here is the code:

Application.UserAppDataPath

The rest of the path is similar to the path in your solution

Itzik Katzav

From you application you can use the DataDirectory property to access the data dir.

Please see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.deployment.application.applicationdeployment.datadirectory.aspx

System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.DataDirectory will give you the path to the data directroy from within your application. This property does not work in partial trust.

Thanks,
Sameer