How to navigate a few folders up?

Question

One option would be to do System.IO.Directory.GetParent() a few times. Is there a more graceful way of travelling a few folders up from where the executing assembly resides?

Answer 1

You can use ..\path to go one level up, ..\..\path to go two levels up from path.

You can use Path class too.

C# Path class

Answer 2

This is what worked best for me:

string parentOfStartupPath = Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, @"../"));

Getting the 'right' path wasn't the problem, adding '../' obviously does that, but after that, the given string isn't usable, because it will just add the '../' at the end. Surrounding it with Path.GetFullPath() will give you the absolute path, making it usable.

Answer 3

if c:\folder1\folder2\folder3\bin is the path then the following code will return the path base folder of bin folder

//string directory=System.IO.Directory.GetParent(Environment.CurrentDirectory).ToString());

string directory=System.IO.Directory.GetParent(Environment.CurrentDirectory).ToString();

ie,c:\folder1\folder2\folder3

if you want folder2 path then you can get the directory by

string directory = System.IO.Directory.GetParent(System.IO.Directory.GetParent(Environment.CurrentDirectory).ToString()).ToString();

then you will get path as c:\folder1\folder2\

Answer 4

this may help

string parentOfStartupPath = Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, @"../../")) + "Orders.xml";
if (File.Exists(parentOfStartupPath))
{
    // file found
}

Answer 5

C#

string upTwoDir = Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(System.AppContext.BaseDirectory, @"..\..\"));

Answer 6

Maybe you could use a function if you want to declare the number of levels and put it into a function?

private String GetParents(Int32 noOfLevels, String currentpath)
{
     String path = "";
     for(int i=0; i< noOfLevels; i++)
     {
         path += @"..\";
     }
     path += currentpath;
     return path;
}

And you could call it like this:

String path = this.GetParents(4, currentpath);