How can I load this file into an NUnit Test?

Question

I have the following IntegrationTest project structure ...

If i wish t

Answer 1

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If you get a DirectoryNotFoundException because the test is looking in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common... rather than in bin\Debug\..., it means your test adapter is executing from a path that isn't your test project output directory.

To solve this, you can get that bin\Debug\... directory by looking for the directory of the test DLL like so:

using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;

// Get directory of test DLL
var dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

// dir is now "C:\...\bin\Debug" or wherever the executable is running from

I threw that in a TestHelpers static class in the test project so that I can use it in every test that needs to load external files.

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