Continuing my series of short but useful tips and tricks, one usually needs to find the directory of an executing assembly. The simple console application below shows how to do this. The Visual Basic example is after the C# one.
C#
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
internal class Program
{
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Directory: " + AssemblyDirectory());
Console.WriteLine("Location: " + Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
Console.ReadKey();
}
public static string AssemblyDirectory()
{
var uri = new UriBuilder(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase);
return Path.GetDirectoryName(Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path));
}
}
}
Visual Basic
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.IO
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Console.WriteLine("Directory: " + AssemblyDirectory())
Console.WriteLine("Location: " + Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)
Console.ReadKey()
End Sub
Public Function AssemblyDirectory() As String
Dim uri = New UriBuilder(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase)
Return Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path))
End Function
End Module
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