Windows service - get current directory

You can set the current directory to the directory that your service is running from by including this line in your code:

System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory);

The important part of this is:

System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

That returns the path to the directory your service is running from.

Try this:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location

Getting directory from full path:

var location = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location;
var directoryPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(location);

Quite a silly problem when comparing to writing a Windows service :)

Don't use Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(). I had the same exact problem with C:\Windows\System32 being returned. Use this instead:

Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);