Getting the absolute path of the executable, using C#?

Question

Have a look at this pseudocode:

string exe_path = system.get_exe_path()
print "This executable is located in " + exe_path

If I build the above program and place the executable in C:/meow/, It would print out This executable is located in C:/meow/ each time it is run, regardless of the current working directory.

How could I easily accomplish this using C#?

Answer 1

MSDN has an article that says to use System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase; if you need the directory, use System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName on that result.

Or, there's the shorter Application.ExecutablePath which "Gets the path for the executable file that started the application, including the executable name" so that might mean it's slightly less reliable depending on how the application was launched.

Answer 2

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

Answer 3

using System.Reflection;

string myExeDir = new FileInfo(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location).Directory.ToString();

Answer 4

"Gets the path or UNC location of the loaded file that contains the manifest."

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.assembly.location.aspx

Application.ResourceAssembly.Location

Answer 5

var dir = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

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Answer 6

Suppose i have .config file in console app and now am getting like below.

Directory.GetParent(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()).Parent.FullName + "\\YourFolderName\\log4net.config";

Answer 7

On my side, I used, with a form application:

String Directory = System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath;

it takes the application startup path.