Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm getting bit by it as well. I can
embed the file, but I need the file to be writeable, so it needs to be a
separate datafile. However, the runtime keeps wanting to assume the file is
packed into the assembly (I keep my code in Proj/Source, and it keeps
telling me it can't find source/datafile.xml, even though I only set
Source="datafile.xml")
I keep reading about people saying it's possible, but I have not found a
single example doesn't use absolute paths
"Larry Andersen" <LarryAndersen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to do a simple binding to an external xml file that is located
> on
> my hard drive in the same director as the application source code. I set
> up
> an XmlDataProvider as follows in my xaml:
>
> <XmlDataProvider x:Key="XmlDS" Source="Kiosk.xml"/>
>
> When I execute the app, I get an IOException that says "cannot locate
> resource 'kiosk.xml'"
>
> I've tried changing the source to the following:
>
> "Kiosk.xml"
> "\Kiosk.xml"
> ".\Kiosk.xml"
> "..\..\Kiosk.xml"
> "file://kiosk.xml"
>
> None of the above work.
>
> If I embed the xml file in the assembly, everything works fine.
>
> Is there something I'm missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
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