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.

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Answer 1

Do you want the actual working directory, or the directory containing the assembly? It's not entirely clear.

There's Environment.CurrentDirectory if you want the working directory, or Path.GetDirectoryName(typeof(Foo).Assembly.ManifestModule.FullyQualifiedName) to find the location of an assembly (or at least its manifest module, which will be the same thing in almost all cases).