Including text files in the published application

Question

I made an application with C# and it reads text files located on my hard drive but how do I publish the application and include these text files in the final exe so when the application is installed on a different computer it would work and not fail because it cannot locate the text files? I'm using Visual Studio2010

Answer 1

In properties for the file in Visual Studio, change the Build Action from None (probably) to Content, or store it as a Resource file depending on where it needs to end up.

Of course if you are writing an installer just add it to the installed components.