Save image to folder and image path to database

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I am making an application called Profiler to store some people's profiles, and will use a database to store the profile photo's path.

This is my FindPhoto button (to upload the profile photo):

private void btnFindPhoto_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    ofdFindPhoto.Title = "Select a Photo ";
    ofdFindPhoto.InitialDirectory = @"D:\Desktop";
    ofdFindPhoto.FileName = "";
    ofdFindPhoto.Filter = "JPEG Image|*.jpg|GIF Image|*.gif|PNG Image|*.png|BMP Image|*.bmp";
    ofdFindPhoto.Multiselect = false;
    if (ofdFindPhoto.ShowDialog() != DialogResult.OK) { return; }

    // Show the recently uploaded photo on profile
    picProfilePhoto.ImageLocation = ofdFindPhoto.FileName;
}

When the user clicks the button to save the profile, I get the txtName.Text, txtPhone.Text, txtDescription.Text and photo path to save to the database. I want to use something like this to save the photo path:

string photoPath = Application.StartupPath + @"\Photos\" + txtName.Text +
                   Path.GetExtension(ofdFindPhoto.FileName);

This should generate some path like:

Drive:\InstalledPath\Profiler\Username.jpg (or whatever extension)

In short, I need to place a folder inside the application's root, but this folder should be created on install or first run (preferably that I can use on debug, too).

Guru Stron · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-05 05:28:26Z

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    if(!Directory.Exists(Application.StartupPath + @"\Photos"))
         Directory.CreateDirectory(Application.StartupPath + @"\Photos");

answered Jul 5, 2013 at 5:28

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Karthik · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-05 05:33:18Z

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try this in program.cs.It checks for folder when the application in opened

          if (!Directory.Exists(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "Profiles"))
            {
                Directory.CreateDirectory(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "Profiles");

            }
     Application.Run(new form1());

edited Jul 5, 2013 at 5:33

answered Jul 5, 2013 at 5:28

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2 Comments

Fabian Bigler Over a year ago

The slashes in your file paths should be backslashes.

Karthik Over a year ago

@FabianBigler thanks for pointing that.Works without slashes too

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