What's the best way to get the directory from which an assembly is executing

Question

For my apps, I store some configuration file in xml along with the assembly(exe), and something other temporary files for proccessing purpose.

I found some quirk w

Answer 1

Try the implementation below. The CodeBase property is the most reliable way to get the location, and then the rest of the code converts it into standard Windows format (instead of a URI).

static public string AssemblyLoadDirectory
{
    get
    {
        string codeBase = Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().CodeBase;
        UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(codeBase);
        string path = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path);
        return Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
    }
}