Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\~\TextFiles\ActiveUsers.txt'

Question

I tried many ways to access a text file in my Visual Studio 2012 Solution from a folder named TextFiles

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Answer 1

~ is not the "user home" or anything else in Windows. You can still set the path as relative to the working directory (where the executable is) by just not specifying a full path.