How can I get the application's path in a .NET console application?

Question

How do I find the application\'s path in a console application?

In Windows Forms, I can use Application.StartupPath to find the current path, but this d

Answer 1

None of these methods work in special cases like using a symbolic link to the exe, they will return the location of the link not the actual exe.

So can use QueryFullProcessImageName to get around that:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;

internal static class NativeMethods
{
    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
    internal static extern bool QueryFullProcessImageName([In]IntPtr hProcess, [In]int dwFlags, [Out]StringBuilder lpExeName, ref int lpdwSize);

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
    internal static extern IntPtr OpenProcess(
        UInt32 dwDesiredAccess,
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
        Boolean bInheritHandle,
        Int32 dwProcessId
    );
}

public static class utils
{

    private const UInt32 PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION = 0x400;
    private const UInt32 PROCESS_VM_READ = 0x010;

    public static string getfolder()
    {
        Int32 pid = Process.GetCurrentProcess().Id;
        int capacity = 2000;
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(capacity);
        IntPtr proc;

        if ((proc = NativeMethods.OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ, false, pid)) == IntPtr.Zero)
            return "";

        NativeMethods.QueryFullProcessImageName(proc, 0, sb, ref capacity);

        string fullPath = sb.ToString(0, capacity);

        return Path.GetDirectoryName(fullPath) + @"\";
    }
}