application location 1

[dinger2121]

Hello,
This is probably a simple answer, but how do I get the location of the current application?
for example, I want to create a simple log file to accompany my application, and I want it to alway be created in the same folder as the application. How can I get this value?

Thanks

 

[AlexCuse]

The System.Reflection namespace is usually helpful for things like this.

Check out

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location

This will return your exe's file name, so you will need to remove that to get your folder name. Something like:

String s = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;

String folderName = s.Substring(0, s.LastIndexOf('\\') + 1)

Hope it helps,

Alex

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[dinger2121]

That should do it....thanks.

 

[JurkMonkey]

Application.StartupPath will give you the directory where the application is installed.

I believe this is a little bit faster than reflection.

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[Guru7777]

This also tells you where the .exe was started from..

System.Environment.CurrentDirectory

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[MKuiper]

Writing in the directory where the application is installed might go wrong because non-admin users don't have permission to write in the Program Files directory or in a subdirectory of Program Files.

Consider writing in the Application Data directory.

string dirname = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(SpecialFolder.ApplicationData);

Marcel