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How do I convert a path from my drive to an application path? Currently I am creating and accessing files on my hard disk (eg: "D:\MyFolder\MyDoc.doc"). I want this path inside my console application folder. I know I can use Server.MapPath for ASP.NET applications. What about console applications?

Michael Petrotta
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shakz
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    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/837488/how-can-i-get-the-applications-path-in-net-in-a-console-app – Habib Sep 27 '12 at 05:47
  • What do you mean with "convert"? – Dennis Sep 27 '12 at 05:55
  • Sorry,Actually not convert. I just want this inside application folder. Currently I am using this in hard drive. – shakz Sep 27 '12 at 05:56
  • Using System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) ; I can get the debug folder. But how to retrieve the folder and files that I created inside the application. – shakz Sep 27 '12 at 06:12
  • Are you trying to take an absolute path like `D:\something\something` and convert it to a path relative to your applications current working directory like ` ..\..\something\somthing\ ` ? – Alex Gelman Sep 27 '12 at 06:15
  • No.Actually for development purpose i saved my files on harddisk. Now i want to deploy it to server. So I want to change the file paths to app path. – shakz Sep 27 '12 at 06:18

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If you want to read file from your current folder 

System.IO.FileStream stream = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetFile("filename");

or you want to get directory path 

 string path = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
            var directory = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
            var parentdir = System.IO.Directory.GetParent(directory);
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To avoid hardcoding path file, put MyDoc.doc in execution folder, then you can get execution folder by using Directory.GetCurrentDirectory():

string directory = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
string fileName = Path.Combine(directory, "MyDoc.doc");

Other alternative:

string path = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
string directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);

Or:

string directory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;

Or:

string directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);

To get bin folder:

 var bin = Directory.GetParent(directory ).Parent.FullName;
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  • I am using vs 2005. So I cannot use var keyword.What to do?string will work? – shakz Sep 27 '12 at 06:20
  • But these codes are returning me debug folder.D:\Projects\WebDataReceiver\WebDataReceiver\bin\Debug. Isnt it possible to get bin folder itself? – shakz Sep 27 '12 at 06:30