How to get the path of app(without app.exe)?

Question

I want to get the path of my app like: "\\ProgramFiles\\myApp", I try to use the following code:

string path = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase;

But it returns a path which has "\\myapp.exe" at the end.

I also tried:

string path = System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();

But it throws an “NotSupportedException”.

Is there any way to get a path without .exe at the end?

Answer 1

path = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName( path );

Answer 2

Application.StartupPath should do that for you.

Update: from you edit I see that you are running on Compact Framework. Then Application.StartupPath will not work. This is the construct that I usually use then:

private static string GetApplicationPath()
{
    return System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase);
}

Answer 3

More simple than the rest:

using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
...
var path = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)

Answer 4

You can use Path.GetDirectoryName(string) method passing your original path string as parameter for this. What problem are you trying to solve? Maybe you really need something like working directory?

Answer 5

Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(path);

Answer 6

If its an exe as in your case use:

    // Summary:
    //     Gets the path for the executable file that started the 
    //     application, not including the executable name.    
    Application.StartupPath

Answer 7

What about using a FileInfo object to extract the directory name?

In Vb.Net:

fi = New FileInfo(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.Location)
path = fi.DirectoryName