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When within the designer, why does a relative path for a custom control reference the Visual Studio Program Files directory? I have a custom control in my application which logs to a particular folder. If the folder is not there, it is created. When I attempt
to add the custom control to a form I receive an exception stating that the directory cannot be accessed. A try-catch within the controls constructor shows that it is attempting to create the folder within "C
rogram Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7".
This occurs while viewing the designer, not at runtime.
I am guess that this is related to the fact that the custom controls constructor is being called when it gets added to a form at design time. However I do not understand why the constructor is called and how to fix the issue (by looking instead at the current
location of the projects executable). Any suggestions/clues would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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When within the designer, why does a relative path for a custom control reference the Visual Studio Program Files directory? I have a custom control in my application which logs to a particular folder. If the folder is not there, it is created. When I attempt
to add the custom control to a form I receive an exception stating that the directory cannot be accessed. A try-catch within the controls constructor shows that it is attempting to create the folder within "C
rogram Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7".This occurs while viewing the designer, not at runtime.
I am guess that this is related to the fact that the custom controls constructor is being called when it gets added to a form at design time. However I do not understand why the constructor is called and how to fix the issue (by looking instead at the current
location of the projects executable). Any suggestions/clues would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
View the full article