Application Current Working Folder

Hi

I want to be able to get hold of the name of the current working folder that my application is running in.

I tried Application.StartupPath but this always gives the folder the executable was loaded from.

It is possible for example on a shortcut to set a Start In folder which is not where the executable is loaded from but is the current working folder.

Thanks

.NET Development6

You can use System.Environment.CurrentDirectory or System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() to get the current working folder.

Thank you

So simple,

string currentDirectory = Environment.CurrentDirectory;]

I hope this will work.

Best regards,

Rizwan aka RizwanSharp

There are many ways of getting application folder. Some are good some are bad. But the main difference between those methods is that some are constant and some are changeable. I will sort four methods in order from best to worse:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory (best)
Application.StartupDirectory good but requires System.Windows.Forms
Environment.CurrentDirectory (bad because you can't be sure that always will return the same folder path)

also reflection can be used 'this.GetType.Assembly.Location' to get current directory, but mainly it is used for getting running directory of some library.