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Get current folder path
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I need to access working directory from code in C# in MSVS 2013 like:
C:\SomePath\Visual\NameOfTheProject\
In java we can access it System.getProperty("user.dir")
Does C# have equivalent?
#update
Problem is that I need to search folder X for implementations of some interface. App will be executed on different machines, so I should have a path which will always navigate me to folder X
#update2
I need to look for the folder with dlls which is named X in the folder where I execute the app (so my assembly).
Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() will return the current working directory of the process. That is the equivalent of the "user.dir" property in Java.
To get the directory of the exe (or actually, the entry assembly, which is normally the exe), use Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location)
Path.GetDirectoryName
Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()
Assembly.Location
To get the absolute path to the executable file (And not where it was executed from, if it was through a shortcut) you can use:
System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath); (Needs to be using Windows Forms)
or
System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location);
Both will return the directory that your executable is found in.
To get the path of another folder within your executable's directory, you can use this:
Path.Combine(path, "X");
Where path is any of the above examples.
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How do you get the current project directory from C# code when creating a custom MSBuild task?
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I am using Visual Studio 2019 and am trying to get the name of the path of a file that is in the same folder in order to unit test.
So far I have used this code:
var directory = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory which I hoped would get the base directory. However it returns the correct path WITH an extra: "\bin\Debug\netcoreap2.2" at the end, which I want to remove from the path.
I have tried cleaning and rebuilding my project. I have tried deleting the files from the bin folder. However this does not work.
Does anyone know the solution for this please?
Use a relative path and set "Copy to output" to "always" or "when newer" in the file properties. There's no reason your test code should go about searching for files in the other manner.
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How can I get the application's path in a .NET console application?
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That may seem a bit obvious, but here's the situation: I have a Java program (Mirth Connect) which is processing medical record information, and one of the things I have it doing is invoking a .NET program (to do some things requiring Windows authentication that I had problems doing in Java/Javascript). The .NET program pulls settings from a settings file located in the directory it's invoked from; that is, from the directory where the Mirth Connect executable exists). I want to pull the settings from the directory where the .NET executable is, but short of hard-coding, I'm not sure how to find that directory.
To get the directory your EXE file is use:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory
To get the current directory
Evnironment.CurrentDirectory
In a .NET application, there is no fixed place where the configuration file should be. It could be anywhere. You should check it for the specific program. I would first check if the configuration file of the .NET program you call is on the same directory with the executable. This is not a guaranteed but it is the default scenario. If it is not there, you should find out where it is and then use that relative path in all of your installations.
Hope I am not missing something!
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Get path to execution directory of Windows Forms application
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How can I make a string variable containing path to my win-app executable folder? I know that there's the simple command Application.ExecutablePath which returns all the path including the .exe name, but I need that path without the .exe name.
You want System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName:
string appPath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);
#shf301's answer works for Windows Forms apps. The generic way that should work for any executable (*.exe), whether it's a Windows Forms or not is
string fqn = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location ;
string dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(fqn) ;
Or even easier:
string baseDir = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory ;
AppDomain.BaseDirectory returns "the base directory that the assembly resolver uses to probe for assemblies." For ordinary executables, that's the directory containing the entrypoint assembly.
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get path for my .exe using c#
Hello I have a question:
How can I get my root project path? what I mean is the first folder in the project where the solution is.
I found that command :
System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
However it gives me a specific path to the release folder:
wanted_Path/bin/Release
So is there other code, should I cut it manually or put my files in the Release folder??
This gives you the root folder:
System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory
You can navigate from here using .. or ./ etc.. ,
Appending .. takes you to folder where .sln file can be found
For .NET framework (thanks to Adiono comment)
Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory,"..\\..\\"))
For .NET core here is a way to do it (thanks to nopara73 comment)
Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "..\\..\\..\\")) ;
You can use
string wanted_path = Path.GetDirectoryName(Path.GetDirectoryName(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()));
var requiredPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Path.GetDirectoryName(
System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase )));
Your program has no knowledge of where your VS project is, so see get path for my .exe and go ../.. to get your project's path.
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How do I find out what directory my console app is running in with C#?
How to get current working directory of a console that runs a program so I could resolve relative paths passed as program args?
Lets say I've put my program here: c:\tools\program.exe
But I'm invoking it from various places. Lets say I'm here: C:\Users\Me\Documents\ and I run this command program.exe --src=somefile.txt --dest=subdir\otherfile.txt
Environment.CurrentDirectory and System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location will return c:\tools but I would like to be able to resolve somefile.txt and subdir\oterfile.txt paths that are relative to C:\Users\Me\Documents\.
====== UPDATE ======
Thank you for your help. It seems that Environment.CurrentDirectory works as expected. It turned out that in my case the problem was caused by Xenocode's Postbuild tool (now called Spoon Virtual Application Studio) that I occasionally use to "pack" all program's files (including dlls, config, etc.) into one executable. It's very handy, but in this case the "virtualization" feature messed up my program's Environment variables. I've managed to solve that issue.
Environment.CurrentDirectory gives you the Current Working Directory
Let me show a simple example:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Startup: " + Environment.CurrentDirectory);
Environment.CurrentDirectory = #"D:\temp";
Console.WriteLine("After:" + Environment.CurrentDirectory);
}
}
Now I create two folders named D:\temp and D:\temp2
I put the executable in D:\temp
Open a command prompt and set the current working directory with cd D:\temp2
From that directory I run ..\temp\mytestapp.exe
the output is
Startup: D:\temp2
After: D:\temp
As a curiosity:
this was the documentation for Environment.CurrentDirectory in Net 1.1
Gets and sets the fully qualified path of the current directory; that
is, the directory from which this process starts.
and this is the documentation in NET 4.0
Gets or sets the fully qualified path of the current working
directory.
Use the Environment and Path classes. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fyy7a5kt.aspx
var fqn = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "somefile.txt")
But to play with your documents you need:
var fqn = Path.Combine(
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Person),
"somefile.txt");
`fqn' is TLA for fully qualified name