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Nick LaMarca
Nick LaMarca

Reputation: 8188

Get File Path of A File In Your Current Project

How do I programmically get the File Path of a File In my project?

 string fileContent = File.ReadAllText(LocalConstants.EMAIL_PATH);

The EMAIL_PATH I added to my project as a text file. This line of code throws an exception because by default it is looking in the system32 folder for some reason. I need to set it to the projects directory.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 61253

Answers (3)

Kapil
Kapil

Reputation: 191

This worked for me System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.ToString()

Upvotes: 0

dtsg
dtsg

Reputation: 4468

You can use Environment.CurrentDirectory

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.currentdirectory.aspx

For further reading.

edit*

string temp = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase);

Will do the same and is perhaps a little safer.

Upvotes: 0

Tim Schmelter
Tim Schmelter

Reputation: 460018

You could use Path.Combine and AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory:

string fileName = "SampleFile.txt";
string path = Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, LocalConstants.EMAIL_PATH, fileName);

Returns in a test project in debug mode this path(when LocalConstants.EMAIL_PATH="Emails"):

C:\****\****\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\WindowsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\bin\Debug\Emails\SampleFile.txt

Upvotes: 31

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