I've tried several properties of the application object in VB.NET but none seem to give me what the old App.Path did in VB6. Application.ExecutablePath returns 'C: Users Paul Documents Visual Studio 2010 Projects FCL Manager 2011 bin Debug FCL Manager 2011.EXE' whereas App.Path used to give me 'C: Users Paul Documents Visual Studio 2010 Projects FCL Manager 2011 ' - which is what I want. Application.StartupPath return the path of the executable file. Since the executable file is inside the Debug folder it is returning that path. If you change the build output path and set it to your code folder (WindowsApplication1). It will return the path what you want. VB.NET program that uses Path.Combine function Imports System.IO Module Module1 Sub Main ' Combine directory with file name. Dim value1 As String = Path.Combine('Content', 'file.txt') Console.WriteLine(value1) ' Combine directory and trailing backslash with file name. I'm nearly ready to distribute my vb.net application. I have several picturebox files which are loaded currently from c:/temp. I need to change this directory to one that will be OK to use when the user installs it to their PC. My question is how can I do this? Is there a way to get the installation path, then use that within the code as a. Get program path in VB.NET? Ask Question Asked 9 years, 7 months ago. This is using the My feature of VB.NET. This particular property is available for all non-web project types, since.NET Framework 2.0, including Console Apps as you require. Displaying Application File Path in Label VB.net.
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How do I find the application's path in a console application?
In Windows Forms, I can use
Application.StartupPath to find the current path, but this doesn't seem to be available in a console application.
I would like to get the path to the execution directory of a Windows Forms application. (That is, the directory in which the executable is located.) Does anyone know of a built-in method in.NET t.
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26 AnswersSystem.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() .Location 1
Combine that with
System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName if all you want is the directory.
1As per Mr.Mindor's comment: Sebastian Brosch
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location returns where the executing assembly is currently located, which may or may not be where the assembly is located when not executing. In the case of shadow copying assemblies, you will get a path in a temp directory. System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase will return the 'permanent' path of the assembly.
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Sam AxeSam Axe
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You can use the following code to get the current application directory.
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Sarathy
You have two options for finding the directory of the application, which you chose will depend on your purpose.
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Mr.MindorMr.Mindor
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Probably a bit late but this is worth a mention:
Or more correctly to get just the directory path:
Edit:
Quite a few people have pointed out that shA.t
GetCommandLineArgs is not guaranteed to return the program name. See The first word on the command line is the program name only by convention. The article does state that 'Although extremely few Windows programs use this quirk (I am not aware of any myself)'. So it is possible to 'spoof' GetCommandLineArgs , but we are talking about a console application. Console apps are usually quick and dirty. So this fits in with my KISS philosophy.
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For anyone interested in asp.net web apps. Here are my results of 3 different methods
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the app is physically running from 'C:inetpubSBSPortal_staging', so the first solution is definitely not appropriate for web apps.
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The answer above was 90% of what I needed, but returned a Uri instead of a regular path for me.
As explained in the MSDN forums post, How to convert URI path to normal filepath?, I used the following:
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For Console Applications, you can try this:
Output (on my local machine):
c:usersxxxxxxxdocumentsvisual studio 2012ProjectsImageHandlerGetDirbinDebug
Or you can try (there's an additional backslash in the end):
Output:
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c:usersxxxxxxxdocumentsvisual studio 2012ProjectsImageHandlerGetDirbinDebug
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If you are looking for a .NET Core compatible way, use
This was introduced in .NET Framework 4.6 and .NET Core 1.0 (and .NET Standard 1.3). See: AppContext.BaseDirectory Property.
According to this page,
This is the prefered replacement for AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory in .NET Core
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I have used
when I want to find a path relative to an applications folder. This works for both ASP.Net and winform applications. It also does not require any reference to System.Web assemblies.
user2346593user2346593
You can simply add to your project references
System.Windows.Forms and then use the System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath as usual .
So, not need for more complicated methods or using the reflection.
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I use this if the exe is supposed to be called by double clicking it
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I mean, why not a p/invoke method?
You would use it just like the Application.StartupPath:
user3596865user3596865
Following line will give you an application path:
Above solution is working properly in following situations:
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Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location or Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location
Use in combination with
System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName() to get only the directory.
The paths from
GetEntryAssembly() and GetExecutingAssembly() can be different, even though for most cases the directory will be the same.
With
GetEntryAssembly() you have to be aware that this can return null if the entry module is unmanaged (ie C++ or VB6 executable). In those cases it is possible to use GetModuleFileName from the Win32 API:
HermanHerman
Will resolve the issue to refer the 3rd party reference files with installation packages.
Nirav MehtaNirav Mehta
in VB.net
works for me (Application Type: Class Library). Not sure about C#..Returns the path w/o Filename as string
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None of these methods work in special cases like using a symbolic link to the exe, they will return the location of the link not the actual exe.
So can use QueryFullProcessImageName to get around that:
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Another solution is using relative paths pointing to the current path:
blenderfreakyblenderfreaky
I didn't see anyone convert the LocalPath provided by .Net Core reflection into a usable System.IO path so here's my version.
This will return the full 'C:xxxxxx' formatted path to where your code is.
mark gamachemark gamache
There are many ways to get executable path, which one we should use it depends on our needs here is a link which discuss different methods.
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Here is a reliable solution that works with 32bit and 64bit applications.
Add these references:
using System.Diagnostics;
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Add this method to your project:
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Now use it like so:
Notice that if you know the id of the process, then this method will return the corresponding ExecutePath.
Extra, for those interested:
..will give you an array of all the currently running processes, and..
..will give you the current process, along with their information e.g. Id, etc. and also limited control e.g. Kill, etc.*
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You can create a folder name as Resources within the project using Solution Explorer,then you can paste a file within the Resources.
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Vb.net Set Application Path
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