Error while reading a text file in asp.net MVC

Question

I'm developing a website using ASP.NET MVC. I've multiline Data which I'm storing in a text line and saved that text file in ContentData Folder in my application. I'm hitting the error that file path is not found like this

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

Please Look at my code and help me how to do this.

This is the View:

 @{
    ViewBag.Title = "WhatToExpect";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
    }
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.4.js"></script>


   <h2></h2>
   @{
    int counter = 0;
    string line;

   // Read the file and display it line by line.
    System.IO.StreamReader file =  new  
    System.IO.StreamReader(@"~/ContentData/WTE.txt");
    while((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
    {

    string notes= line;

    Html.Raw(notes);


    counter++;
    }
    <div id="ChurchImage">
    <img src="../../Images1/redeemer.jpg" alt="" /> 
    </div>
    file.Close();
    }

I've tried replacing @ in the file path. Nothing worked.Please Help me out.Thanks in advance

Answer 1

// Get your root directoty
var root = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
// Read the file and display it line by line.
System.IO.StreamReader file =  new System.IO.StreamReader( root + @"/ContentData/WTE.txt");

Edit

Your controller should be like,

public ActionResult Index()
{
    var root = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
    string line;
    System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader( root + @"/Content/Site.css");
    var fileLines = new List<string>();
    while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
    {
        fileLines.Add(line);
    }
    // You can use model, temdata or viewbag to carry your data to view.
    ViewBag.File = fileLines;
    return View();
}

And now you can use this ViewBag.File in your view to render your file data.

@{
    string line;
    foreach (var item in ViewBag.File)
    {
        <p>@item</p>
    }
}