I want my app to create a file in a convenient exisiting folder. The logical
place to craete it would be the application's installation folder. Is there
any way that an application can get the path of its own installation - or,
equivelantly, the path from which it was run. (I was going to use
Environment.CommandLine, which includes the program name, but the help states
"The program name can, but is not required to, include path information."
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Dave
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Dave wrote: I want my app to create a file in a convenient exisiting folder. The logical
place to craete it would be the application's installation folder. Is there
any way that an application can get the path of its own installation - or,
equivelantly, the path from which it was run. (I was going to use
Environment.CommandLine, which includes the program name, but the help states
"The program name can, but is not required to, include path information."
Application.StartupPath will do what you want.
Matt
How about Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().CodeBase or one of the other
properties.
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news:B6**********************************@microsof t.com... I want my app to create a file in a convenient exisiting folder. The
logical
place to craete it would be the application's installation folder. Is
there
any way that an application can get the path of its own installation - or,
equivelantly, the path from which it was run. (I was going to use
Environment.CommandLine, which includes the program name, but the help
states
"The program name can, but is not required to, include path information."
--
Dave
Found it - Application.ExecutablePath.
Shouldn't be so eager to post
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Dave
"Dave" wrote: I want my app to create a file in a convenient exisiting folder. The logical
place to craete it would be the application's installation folder. Is there
any way that an application can get the path of its own installation - or,
equivelantly, the path from which it was run. (I was going to use
Environment.CommandLine, which includes the program name, but the help states
"The program name can, but is not required to, include path information."
--
Dave
Dave wrote: Found it - Application.ExecutablePath.
Shouldn't be so eager to post
StartupPath is easier, you don't have to remove the executable name
that way.
:)
Matt
Not to leave out System.Environment.CurrentDirectory. They all have slightly
different effects and applications.
Peter
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"Dave" wrote: I want my app to create a file in a convenient exisiting folder. The logical
place to craete it would be the application's installation folder. Is there
any way that an application can get the path of its own installation - or,
equivelantly, the path from which it was run. (I was going to use
Environment.CommandLine, which includes the program name, but the help states
"The program name can, but is not required to, include path information."
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