How to get MSTest to find my test data files?

Question

I have a few tests that need to be fed with external data from excel files. The files are included in the test project, and in Visual Studio, I have edited the test settings fil

Answer 1

I get round this by adding my data files (in my case usually XML) as embedded resources and I extract them from the test assembly.

[TestInitialize]
public void InitializeTests()
{
    var asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
    this.doc = new XmlDocument();
    this.doc.Load(asm.GetManifestResourceStream("TestAssembly.File.xml"));
}