How to get current working directory path c#?

Question

I have a cursor file in project. I have given the absolute path in code i.e

F:/r.cur  

the problem is this is hard-coded path And i Want relative path so that if i move my solution to another system the code should not effect.

please suggest how to set relative path

//current code i am using 
 p.Cursor = new Cursor("F:/r.cur");

Answer 1

You can use static Directory class - however current directory is distinct from the original directory, which is the one from which the process was started.

System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();

So you can use the following to get the directory path of the application executable:

System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Windows.Forms.Application.ExecutablePath);

Answer 2

use Application.StartupPath returns path for the executable file that started the application.

        string pathCur = Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, @"..\..\r.cur");
        Cursor = new Cursor(pathCur);

Answer 3

You can also get by
System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
but it shows bin and debug folder also, if you don't want these folder so you can use that code :

string page = "E:\abccom\Cat\Mouse.aspx"

string name = Path.GetFileName(page );
string nameKey = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(page );
string directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(page );

Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}",
page, name, nameKey, directory);

Output:

GetFileName:                                        Mouse.aspx
GetFileNameWithoutExtension:           Mouse
GetDirectoryName:                              E:\abccom\Cat

Happy Coding :)

Answer 4

How about : Environment.CurrentDirectory

See more at : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.environment?view=net-5.0

Answer 5

Super super late to the party.

But depends on what you mean - if you're after the directory onto which your app code is finally deployed (on your test machine for example), then this works for a regular console app:

//gives something like D:\source\repos\Repo\src\AppName\bin\Debug\net6.0\Appame.dll
var assemblyLocation = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location; 

//gives something like D:\source\repos\Repo\src\AppName\bin\Debug\net6.0
var currentDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(assemblyLocation);

//gives something like D:\source\repos\Repo\src\AppName
var appRootFolder = currentDirectory.Split("\\bin")[0];

Console.WriteLine($"The root of the application is here: {appRootFolder}");

Answer 6

You can get the current working directory by using System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(). it will return your current executable path.

Thanks

Answer 7

Application.StartupPath should give you application path from where your application is running. I would create a directory structure under application folder. e.g If "C:\Program Files\MyApp" is my application folder, then I would create a folder named cursors under it (C:\Program Files\MyApp\Cursors") and put all cursors within this folder.

Answer 8

System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainModule.FileName) at startup will give you the full path.

After that, if you * really want to find something during development (as your comments in other answers point) *, first find the path using FileInfo(thestringwithfilenamepath).Directory.Name.

Answer 9

Super late to this party, but this works for me when I'm in unit tests.

var currentDirectory = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();

If you need the root of the project, and not the bin directory then this:

var currentDirectory = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
var basePath = currentDirectory.Split(new string[] { "\\bin" }, StringSplitOptions.None)[0];

It'll be different if you're on a website.

Answer 10

For .net 6 and .net 7 I use:

var filePath = Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, $"someFile.txt");