Why AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory not contains “bin” in asp.net app?

Question

I have a web project like:

namespace Web
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, Event         


        

Answer 1

In case you want a solution that works for WinForms and Web Apps

    public string ApplicationPath
    {
        get
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.RelativeSearchPath))
            {
                return AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory; //exe folder for WinForms, Consoles, Windows Services
            }
            else
            {
                return AppDomain.CurrentDomain.RelativeSearchPath; //bin folder for Web Apps 
            }
        }
    }

Above solution code snippet is for binaries locations

The AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory is still valid path for Web Apps, it's just a root folder where the web.config and Global.asax and is same as Server.MapPath(@"~\");