Published C# Console App - The system cannot find the file specificied

Question

I am using a very short C# console app to launch an executable written in python, so that I can take advantage of click-once deployment.

In debug mode I am able to locate the two executable files that are included as resources. However, once the App is published I cannot seem to locate their relative file paths. I get an exception: "system cannot find the file specified"

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;


namespace UpdateConsole
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string RunningPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
            string driver_path = string.Format("{0}Resources\\chromedriver.exe", System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(System.IO.Path.Combine(RunningPath, @"")));
            string exe_path  = string.Format("{0}Resources\\DUU.exe", System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(System.IO.Path.Combine(RunningPath, @"")));

            Process.Start(exe_path,driver_path);
        }
    }
}

I have also tried to reference the resource like so:

Properties.Resources.DUU;

But this returns a byte[] object and I am not sure how to extract a relative file path from here.

Answer 1

 string RunningPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;

the file path provided by this code changes based on the build mode: 1. In debug mode it is.../bin/Debug. 2. In release mode it is.../bin/Release.

So make sure you copy the.exe files to the appropriate folder.