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remy_jourde
remy_jourde

Reputation: 300

What is the equivalent of App.Path and App.EXEName in VB.Net

I need some help to find the equivalent of App.Path and App.EXEName in VB.Net in a DLL.

Thank you for your help.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 20029

Answers (3)

Yasir Jilani
Yasir Jilani

Reputation: 1

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click


    Dim path As String = System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(Application.StartupPath & "\test.txt")
    Dim lines = File.ReadAllLines(path)
    Dim firstLine = lines(0)
    Dim fields = firstLine.Split(Microsoft.VisualBasic.ChrW(44))
    '  TextBox1.Text = ExeFolder
    'Id = fields(4)
    TextBox2.Text = fields(0)
End Sub

Upvotes: 0

Md Ashraful Islam
Md Ashraful Islam

Reputation: 138

You can get it by,

Application.ExecutablePath

It contains both directory and executable file, to separate it, you can use System.IO.Path class

Dim ExePath = Application.ExecutablePath
Dim ExeFolder = Path.GetDirectoryName(ExePath)  ' which is App.Path in VB6

That's it.

Upvotes: 1

Heinzi
Heinzi

Reputation: 172468

According to MSDN (App Object Changes in Visual Basic .NET), the replacement for both is

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location

It contains the full path (App.Path) as well as the file name (App.EXEName). You can split the information using the helper methods from the Path class:

' Import System.Reflection and System.IO at the top of your class file
Dim location = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location
Dim appPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(location)       ' C:\Some\Directory
Dim appName = Path.GetFileName(location)            ' MyLibrary.DLL

UPDATE (thanks to the commenters): If you are executing this code in a DLL and you want the name of the EXE that called the DLL, you need to use GetEntryAssembly instead of GetExecutingAssembly. Note that GetEntryAssembly might return Nothing if your DLL was called from an unmanaged EXE.

Upvotes: 14

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