File reading and writing inside asp.net web application - asp.net

Question

I have developed an ASP.NET web application in Visual Studio 2008.
I have an HTML document and one text file in the application, but both are not inside my application.
Both are outside, so when I try to run the same application in another system, I get an error because I am missing those files.
I want to include the files inside the application when I deploy it.
Below is the code I use to read and write the files:
//file write test.txt
FileStream file1 = new FileStream("test.txt", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
// Create a new stream to write to the file
StreamWriter sw1 = new StreamWriter(file1);
// Write a string to the file
sw1.Write(emailId);
// Close StreamWriter
sw1.Close();
// Close file
file1.Close();
// *** Write to file ***
// Specify file, instructions, and privelegdes
FileStream file = new FileStream("test.html", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
// Create a new stream to write to the file
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(file);
// Write a string to the file
sw.Write(BodyLiteral.Text);
// Close StreamWriter
sw.Close();
// Close file
file.Close();
// *** Read from file ***
// Specify file, instructions, and privelegdes
file = new FileStream("test.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read);
// Create a new stream to read from a file
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(file);
// Read contents of file into a string
string cval = sr.ReadToEnd();
Response.Write(cval);
// Close StreamReader
sr.Close();
// Close file
file.Close();
//html file reading
string text = File.ReadAllText(#"D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\test.html");
Both of my files are in: D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\
How can I deploy these two files with application so that the program will work on another system?

Answer 1

Your best bet would be Server.MapPath().
Example:
Put the files inside folder "file" (you can make a folder in your solution, by right clicking your solution and choose add folder)..
then right click the folder..choose existing item , and then choose your files..
To make the path to your files local.. use the follow
Server.MapPath("~\\files\\test.html");
Your code modified
FileStream file = new FileStream( Server.MapPath("~\\files\\test.html"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);

Answer 2

Best thing to do is to add the files to your solution.
In solution exploere you can right-click and add an existing item. Change your code to read from that location, so when you deploy your code it will be in a known location and part of the deployment.