Getting current file

Question

I know in vb.net you can use System.Reflection.MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod.ToString to get the name of the current method you are in. However, is there a way to use System.Reflection... to get the name of the current file you are in?

So if you had a file in the project named blah.vb I would want System.Reflection... to return blah.vb

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can use System.Reflection.Assembly to find the file name of the current assembly. There are several applicable methods to choose from:

• GetEntryAssembly - Returns the assembly that started the process (the executable)
• GetCallingAssembly - Returns the assembly that called the current method
• GetExecutingAssembly - Returns the assembly in which the current method resides

I suspect that what you want is GetExecutingAssembly. All of those methods return an Assembly object through which you can get the file path, like this:

Dim myFilePath As String = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location

For what it's worth, if you need get the file name of the executable, but it's not a .NET assembly (because you're in a .NET library invoked via COM), then the above method won't work. For that, the best option would be to grab the first argument from the command line, like this: Dim myComExeFile As String = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()(0)