How do I determine the application's root directory?

antwong — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:31:00 GMT

This is a popular question in the forum. The answer used be part of NETCF FAQ but cannot be easily located these days, so I would include the information here:

An application can determine the directory from which it was run by utilizing Reflection and easily modify it using IO.Path namespace.

[C#]

using System.Reflection; using System.IO; // This is the full directory and exe name String fullAppName = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase; // This strips off the exe name String fullAppPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(fullAppName);

// This adds a file name to the path String fullFileName = Path.Combine(fullAppPath, "myfile.txt");

From http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa497276.aspx

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