Scheduler can't find Environment.CurrentDirectory for a running console app

Question

I have simple C# console app that gets data from config.ini located in same directory. Reference to config.ini implemented with Environment.CurrentDirectory:

IniFile myIni = new IniFile(Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\config.ini");

Problem is when I'm running app with Scheduler, it can't find path to config.ini. How to set such path for running app with Scheduler?

Task Scheduler actions have a "start in" setting - have you tried setting it? — Simon MᶜKenzie, Mar 07 '18 at 00:09
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52797/how-do-i-get-the-path-of-the-assembly-the-code-is-in for 101 suggestions. — spender, Mar 07 '18 at 00:09

Héctor M. · Answer 1 · 2018-03-07T00:23:33.210

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Try this

// to get the location the assembly is executing from
//(not necessarily where the it normally resides on disk)
// in the case of the using shadow copies, for instance in NUnit tests, 
// this will be in a temp directory.
string path = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;

//To get the location the assembly normally resides on disk or the install directory
string path = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase;

//once you have the path you get the directory with:
var directory = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(path);

edited Mar 07 '18 at 00:23

answered Mar 07 '18 at 00:15

Héctor M.

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There are better ways for a console app to do this than to include the Windows.Forms assembly... – Mar 07 '18 at 00:19

Scheduler can't find Environment.CurrentDirectory for a running console app

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Try this