Determine whether App is running is Visual Studio

[cody]

Is there a way to do:

#if APP_IS_RUN_IN_VS
path = ".\..\..\..\myfile.rpt";
#else
path = "myfile.rpt";
#endif

I don't want to put the files into debug/bin dir since they woulbe be
deleted on rebuilt then.

 

[Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]]

If we assume that you always use the Debug configuration to run the project
from the IDE,
you can use the following condition:

#if DEBUG
path = ".\..\..\..\myfile.rpt";
#else
path = "myfile.rpt";
#endif

 

[cody]

If we assume that you always use the Debug configuration to run the
project

from the IDE,
you can use the following condition:

#if DEBUG
path = ".\..\..\..\myfile.rpt";
#else
path = "myfile.rpt";
#endif

But I cannot assume this. Additionally, Debug is still set if the app is not
run in VS. Is there another way?
Maybe I can instruct VS to automatically copy these files into the bin/obj
dirs so there is no need to change the path, but how?

 

[Éric Moreau]

You can use this:

Public Shared Function IsInIDE() As Boolean



If System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached Then

'The application is currently running from within the IDE.

Return True

Else

'The application is currently running as a compiled application.

Return False

End If

End Function


--

HTH

Éric Moreau, MCSD
Conseiller Principal / Senior Consultant
Concept S2i inc.(www.s2i.com)

 

[cody]

You can use this:

Public Shared Function IsInIDE() As Boolean



If System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached Then

'The application is currently running from within the IDE.

Return True

Else

'The application is currently running as a compiled application.

Return False

End If

End Function

Thank you, but what if I start the app in VS without debug?
What would you do if you have a file that your application needs to open and
you don't want it to copy in the bin/obj directory every time manually?
There must be a way!

 

[Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]]

BTW - are you that sure that the whole contents of the Debug folder is
erased every time the project is built? I remember I copied necessary data
files to bin\Debug rather frequently and they remained intact regardless of
many subsequent builds...

 

[cody]

BTW - are you that sure that the whole contents of the Debug folder is

erased every time the project is built? I remember I copied necessary data
files to bin\Debug rather frequently and they remained intact regardless of
many subsequent builds...

VS clears that folder if you do a complete rebuild. regular builds don't do
this.

 

[Kieran Benton]

Just out of interest, why not just place your files in a directory elsewhere
on the hd and just reference it from there? Or even place them in your
project directory (up from debug) and reference it using "..\filename"?

Kieran

 

[cody]

Just out of interest, why not just place your files in a directory
elsewhere

on the hd and just reference it from there? Or even place them in your
project directory (up from debug) and reference it using "..\filename"?

Sure I could do this and all would be fine if I run my program from Visual
studio.
But sometimes I need to deploy my app and I do not want to have a path in
the
following form "c:\cody\projects\myapp" or "..\..\myfile.rpt", since my
customer
will neither have Visual Studio installed nor does he have a directory named
"c:\cody\projects".

 

[cody]

There are ways to bypass this problem.

You could use Application.StartupPath and make a sub directory for the
file.
You can put the file under the local user in Documents and Settings using
Application.LocalUserAppDataPath.
You can use a registry entry or a config file specifying the location of
the file.

I wanted the files to be in the same directory where the executable file is.

 

[Morten Wennevik]

There are ways to bypass this problem.
You could use Application.StartupPath and make a sub directory for the
file.
You can put the file under the local user in Documents and Settings using
Application.LocalUserAppDataPath.
You can use a registry entry or a config file specifying the location of
the file.

Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Application.StartupPath then

Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

 

[cody]

Application.StartupPath then

this gets me:

D:\cody\projects\myapp\MainWindow\bin\Debug

But I don't want to put the files into the "bin\Debug" since VS sometimes
erases it.
I thought on including the files as resource. I embedded the files into my
project and set the type on "embedded resource". So now the big question is
how to load them.

 

[C# Learner]

[...]
But I don't want to put the files into the "bin\Debug" since VS sometimes
erases it. [...]

I just tried creating a new text file in 'bin\Debug' then rebuilding the
solution multiple times, and the file wasn't deleted. I'm using VS.NET
2003...

 

[cody]

But I don't want to put the files into the "bin\Debug" since VS
sometimes

erases it. [...]

I just tried creating a new text file in 'bin\Debug' then rebuilding the
solution multiple times, and the file wasn't deleted. I'm using VS.NET
2003...

I also tried it now and it didn't disappear either. I could swear VS would
clear the bin/obj folder on complete rebuilds.
Maybe it was in another version, maybe it was C++.
Thanks, this should have solved my problem for now