Application location

[Chris]

I am writing an .net assembly that can be called from a windows
application or from a web application and need to know the location of
the application that it is running under to be able to load an
initialisation file that may be above the application folder.

It should be the folder the application was run from or in an ASP.net
application it should be the same as
Request.ServerVariables.RootFilePath but I need to get at it in
Global.asax when Request is unavailable.

Where can I get this info?

[Natty Gur]

Hi,

In which event you cant access
HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath. as far as i know you can
get it from application_start, Session_Start and
Application_BeginRequest.

Natty Gur[MVP]

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[Cosmin Marin]

Hi,

You can try HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~").

Cosmin

"Chris" <fr*******@surf.to> wrote in message
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I am writing an .net assembly that can be called from a windows
application or from a web application and need to know the location of
the application that it is running under to be able to load an
initialisation file that may be above the application folder.

It should be the folder the application was run from or in an ASP.net
application it should be the same as
Request.ServerVariables.RootFilePath but I need to get at it in
Global.asax when Request is unavailable.

Where can I get this info?

[Chris]

Server.MapPath does work inside the ASP application, thanks.
I've also discovered Path.GetFullPath which I call if Server isn't present.

Thanks

"Cosmin Marin" <no****@nospam.ro> wrote in message news:<#a**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...

Hi,

You can try HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~").

Cosmin

"Chris" <fr*******@surf.to> wrote in message
news:57*************************@posting.google.co m...

I am writing an .net assembly that can be called from a windows
application or from a web application and need to know the location of
the application that it is running under to be able to load an
initialisation file that may be above the application folder.

It should be the folder the application was run from or in an ASP.net
application it should be the same as
Request.ServerVariables.RootFilePath but I need to get at it in
Global.asax when Request is unavailable.

Where can I get this info?

[Chris]

Server.MapPath does work inside the ASP application, thanks.
I've also discovered Path.GetFullPath which I call if Server isn't present.

Thanks

"Cosmin Marin" <no****@nospam.ro> wrote in message news:<#a**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...

Hi,

You can try HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~").

Cosmin

"Chris" <fr*******@surf.to> wrote in message
news:57*************************@posting.google.co m...

I am writing an .net assembly that can be called from a windows
application or from a web application and need to know the location of
the application that it is running under to be able to load an
initialisation file that may be above the application folder.

It should be the folder the application was run from or in an ASP.net
application it should be the same as
Request.ServerVariables.RootFilePath but I need to get at it in
Global.asax when Request is unavailable.

Where can I get this info?