Want to Distribute PDF file with my Visual Basic Project during Deploying

Question

I have Visual Basic (Visual Studio Professional Edition, .NetFrameWork 4.0) I want to include and Call PDF with my Button_Click_Event I include MyPDF.pdf in

Answer 1

Firstly, press on the pdf file in the solutions explorer. Propeties of the file should be as following:

Build Action: Content 
Copy to output directory: Copy always

The path to the file in users computer will be Application.StartupPath & "\Resources\MyPDF.pdf"

Not sure I did not forget something, so tell me if it works :)

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EDIT: I see a lot of people are having trouble with this so here is the simplest way I know to deploy a file together with .net program in visual studio:

1. Drag and drop the file to the solutions explorer
2. Press on the file in the solutions explorer and modify it's propeties to:

   Build Action: Content;
   Copy to output directory: Copy always

3. The path to the file to be used in code will be Application.StartupPath & "\filename.txt"

I think there is a way to do it without Application.StartupPath, which may cause problems somehow, but i don't know how