How to access files found in a different project?

Question

I have an asp.net web api solution with different project:

• MyProject.Web -- This has the web api controllers
• MyProject.BusinessLogic -- This project holds the business logic and has a folder with.txt files

Since the.Web project has the controllers and is the main executing project, When I try the below codes, it only returns the path to: "//MyProject.Web/bin/..."

Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)!, @"Data\Names.txt")

Is it possible to access the path of files in another project? I do not want to use the full path - eg C:/.../..., But I only need to access it via simple path "ProjectName/folderName/file.txt"

Answer 1

You can use Server.MapPath for this. For example

string filePath = Server.MapPath(@"~/Data/Names.txt");

Server.MapPath returns the physical file path that corresponds to the specified virtual path.