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I mean System.IO.Directory.GetCur<wbr />rentDireto<wbr />ry()
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I mean System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDiretory()

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&gt; should I just make this call in the main constructor and save the value.<br />
1) &nbsp;Yes<br />
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2) GetCurrentDirectory returns the current working directory, not the originating directory of the application. So your application must somehow be changing the working directory before you are calling GetCurrentDirectory.
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> should I just make this call in the main constructor and save the value.
1)  Yes

2) GetCurrentDirectory returns the current working directory, not the originating directory of the application. So your application must somehow be changing the working directory before you are calling GetCurrentDirectory.

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Application.ExecutablePath<wbr /><br />
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this will return what you want<br />
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Application.ExecutablePath

this will return what you want



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What I use is:<br />
String path = &nbsp;Path.GetDirectoryName( Assembly.GetEntryAssembly(<wbr />).Location<wbr /> ) + Path.DirectorySeparatorCha<wbr />r<br />
My exes always reside in &lt;AppFolder&gt;\Bin\, therefore I remove the last Folder and keep this path in a SetUpHandler module at hand.<br />
The Path object is in System.IO<br />
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What I use is:
String path =  Path.GetDirectoryName( Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location ) + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar
My exes always reside in <AppFolder>\Bin\, therefore I remove the last Folder and keep this path in a SetUpHandler module at hand.
The Path object is in System.IO



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I am trying to use System.IO.Directory.GetCal<wbr />lingDirect<wbr />ory() to get the directory of my executable. &nbsp;Its returning a directory of not my executable. &nbsp;So I have two quetsions:<br />
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1. &nbsp;Is there a better way to determine the Calling Directory of the exe, or should I just make this call in the main constructor and save the value.<br />
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2. &nbsp;What / When / Why does this change from the actual CallingDirectory() of the exe
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I am trying to use System.IO.Directory.GetCallingDirectory() to get the directory of my executable.  Its returning a directory of not my executable.  So I have two quetsions:

1.  Is there a better way to determine the Calling Directory of the exe, or should I just make this call in the main constructor and save the value.

2.  What / When / Why does this change from the actual CallingDirectory() of the exe

Getting the Calling Directory of an .exe

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).