Current path in windows application

[RAM]

Hi,

If I want to get the current path of the application(not the bin)? what is
the best way? It seems all the methods return including bin which I don't
want.

thanks in advance

[Phil Weber]

> If I want to get the current path of the application
> (not the bin)?

Ram: If you don't want the location of the \bin folder, which is where the
executable resides, what do you mean by "current path of the application?"
--
Phil Weber

[RAM]

"Phil Weber" <pweber@nospam.fawcette.com> wrote:
> > If I want to get the current path of the application
> > (not the bin)?
>
>Ram: If you don't want the location of the \bin folder, which is where the
>executable resides, what do you mean by "current path of the application?"
>--
>Phil Weber
>
>
Phil, What I mean is my source file is not going to be in \bin directory
and I need the directory where my .vbproj,.sln programs reside(please correct
me if my understanding is wrong - All the source files are stored in one
level up of the \bin)

Source file path : c:\test\test.vbproj
bin path : c:\test\bin

What I want is c:\test in my code. I can always get the c:\test from "c:\test\bin"
but my question is that is there any direct way to get the path?

thanks in advance
RAM

[Paul Mc]

G'day Ram.

>Source file path : c:\test\test.vbproj
>bin path : c:\test\bin

Looks like the only thing this would be useful for is a visual studio addin
- obviously with a typical release app the source code files would be both
unavailable and mostly useless... If what you are working on is an addin,
then look at the VSProject object - accessed via the DTE object, Projects
property, I believe...

HTH,
Cheers,
Paul

[Blob]

>Phil, What I mean is my source file is not going to be in \bin directory
>and I need the directory where my .vbproj,.sln programs reside(please correct
>me if my understanding is wrong - All the source files are stored in one
>level up of the \bin)
In .NET the default is no longer one level up. It looks like this "c:\myDir\bin\Debug
or Release". If you have not changed the settings.

>
>Source file path : c:\test\test.vbproj
>bin path : c:\test\bin
>
>What I want is c:\test in my code. I can always get the c:\test from "c:\test\bin"
>but my question is that is there any direct way to get the path?
If you know the structure you can always use a relative path the current
local directory. IE

Path = get local path
mypath = ..\..\Path - minus all the excess.

There is no need to go to indepth using DTE. It is not trivial to figure
out how to work directly with projects. But, I do have an add-in that does
all of the DTE work for you. Pretty sweet. Anyway, hope that helps.