How to manipulate directory location

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Hello guys,

I'm sorry if my title is not correct... I just want to know how will you be able to manipulate your current directory location? Here is the scenario:

Assuming that my project is located in c://myfiles/program/myproject
and my exe file is located in

c://myfiles/program/myproject/bin/debug/myexe.exe

So what I want to do is I want to get the existing project location which is only the

c://myfiles/program/myproject

and not the

c://myfiles/program/myproject/bin/debug

I used this code to get the current project location

string startupPath = System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

but it only returns this

c://myfiles/program/myproject/bin/debug

I want to back 2 directories that way I can go to

c://myfiles/program/myproject

...

How do i do that?

Please help.

Thanks in advance

Posted 11-Oct-11 17:16pm

Madzmar25

Updated 11-Oct-11 17:20pm

Nueman

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Nueman 11-Oct-11 23:20pm

Edited for punctuation and capitalization and readability.

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Hi,

Try this if could help...

string startupPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.ToString()

Regards,

Algem

Posted 11-Oct-11 17:22pm

Al Moje

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-11T17:25:00

Do not mix up two completely different directories: working directory (this is the one you found) and executable directory. Working directory is good for simple applications, but it does not depend on where your executable files are, it totally depends on where the users starts the application, and the user can start if from any directory.

In contrast, executable directory has certain location depending where your executable files are. There are several different ways to find it, but some of them are not reliable in that sense that the results depend on how the application is hosted. In particular, running the application under Windows Studio or Service Controller (for Windows Service applications) cause problems. This is the most certain method to find this directory:

C#

string exeDirectory =
    System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(
        System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location);

This method also does not depend on the assembly running this code, if finds location of the entry assembly of the currently running application (.EXE file), more exactly, location of its main executable module.

—SA