Get path to execution directory of Windows Forms 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 to do this?


In VB.NET

Dim directory as String = My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath

In C#

string directory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;

Application.Current results in an appdomain http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.appdomain_members.aspx

Also this should give you the location of the assembly

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

I seem to recall there being multiple ways of getting the location of the application. but this one worked for me in the past atleast (it's been a while since i've done winforms programming :/)


This could help;

Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);

also here is the reference


System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath will solve your problem, I think