Executable directory where application is running from

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I need to get the path  not the executable  where my application is running from   System AppDomain CurrentDomain BaseDirectory     When I run the above statement with  amp    images image jpg  on my local machine it works fine but when I install the application on another machine it says it cannot find the file and there is a lot of extra path information some     I just need the directory of where the app is running   I am coding in VB NET with Visual Studio 2008   Thanks

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Dim P As String   System IO Path GetDirectoryName System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly   CodeBase  P   New Uri P  LocalPath

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You could use the static StartupPath property of the Application class

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Dim strPath As String   System IO Path GetDirectoryName        System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly   CodeBase    Taken from HOW TO  Determine the Executing Application s Path  MSDN

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This is the first post on google so I thought I d post different ways that are available and how they compare   Unfortunately I can t figure out how to create a table here  so it s an image   The code for each is below the image using fully qualified names       My Application Info DirectoryPath  Environment CurrentDirectory  System Windows Forms Application StartupPath  AppDomain CurrentDomain BaseDirectory  System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly Location  System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly CodeBase  New System UriBuilder System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly CodeBase   Path GetDirectoryName Uri UnescapeDataString  New System UriBuilder System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly CodeBase  Path     Uri UnescapeDataString  New System UriBuilder System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly CodeBase  Path

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You can write the following   Path Combine Path GetParentDirectory GetType MyClass  Assembly Location    Images image jpg

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I needed to know this and came here  before I remembered the Environment class   In case anyone else had this issue  just use this  Environment CurrentDirectory   Example                    Dim dataDirectory As String   String Format   0  Data    Environment CurrentDirectory    When run from Visual Studio in debug mode yeilds   C  Development solution folder application folder bin debug   This is the exact behaviour I needed  and its simple and straightforward enough

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