Reading Files in Windows Phone 8: Value does not fall within the expected range

Question

I\'m really problems when open files stored in my project. I need open some files (pdf, html,...) and ever has the same problem: Value does not fall within the expected

Answer 1

I noticed that I get that error if I use the shash / in the path to the file. Instead, if I use backslash \ I can get the files.

Try following way:

StorageFile sFile = await Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation.GetFileAsync(@"Assets\Data\htm\" + fileName + ".htm");

var fileStream = await sFile.OpenStreamForReadAsync();

Note that you have to place an @ before the path string to avoid the intepretation of \ as scape character.

You could also get the file stream this way:

var fileStream = File.OpenRead("Assets/Data/htm/" + fileName + ".htm");