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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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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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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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i have a solution , in that i have 5 projects, one project is startup project, which contains references to other projects ,
whenever i build a solution reference projects Dlls will not getting updated automatically.
its getting updated in debug folder but not in bin folder ,
i searched through, got solution that i need to write post build event ,
i tried some but not working, every code givin error,
below is my project path
C:\Documents and Settings\ico403\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\Source_Codes\Framework\CD\bin\Debug
i want to copy spesific files(or Dlls) from this project to other, the path where i need to copy is
C:\Documents and Settings\ico403\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\Source_Codes\Framework\CD\bin
i want this to happen whwnever i build a solution,
how do i copy?
and if i want to copy only specific files ? how do i do that?
Thanks in advance
you can use the following code in build event
copy "[Source]" "[Destination]"
here is a working example to copy from class library to website bin folder
copy "$(ProjectDir)EmailTemplates" "$(SolutionDir)Website/bin/EmailTemplates"
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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
I am facing a problem in setting the path of input ".txt" file. I am reading the contents of the file and modifying the contents. So how can I set the path so that it will work for any computer(if someone will simply paste the project and try to run it.)
I have tried following options.
1) var path = Environment.CurrentDirectory + #"\input.txt";
2) var path = "input.txt";
But I am getting a run time DirectoryNotFound exception. For
var path = #"D:\Projects\Demo Project\C#\Problem1\Problem1\input.txt" ;
It is working fine. But it will work only for this directory structure.
I need something like:- ResolveUrl("~/input.txt"); So that it will work for every case.
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location
Combine that with System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName if all you want is the directory.
if you working in a website, as the comments on question shows, you can use
HttpContext.Current.Request.PhysicalApplicationPath
You can use
System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath;
to get the directory the app started in.
Just remember to add a reference to System.Windows.Forms if it's a console app.
Hope this helps.
If you need the directory where your application is:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory