C#-Difference between System.CurrentDomain.AppDomain.BaseDirectory and Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

Question

Can anyone tell me what's the difference between System.CurrentDomain.AppDomain.BaseDirectory and Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() in C#, please??

See AppDomain on MSDN and also Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() on MSDN.

As editing is not working: "Hello community" in front of this is missing :/ — FranzHuber23, Mar 18 '16 at 16:22
[Salutations are not required..](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts) — stuartd, Mar 18 '16 at 16:26
"Difference" in what way? They are completely different parts of the API. The values will often, but not always, be the same. The current "working" directory (returned by `GetCurrentDirectory()`) can be changed, either when you start a process or from within. Please explain your question: what difference are you expecting and/or concerned about that isn't already adequately described by the documentation? — Peter Duniho, Mar 18 '16 at 23:03
Ok, so then my question would be: "When are those 2 not exactly the same?" — FranzHuber23, Mar 23 '16 at 15:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

According to this question the difference is that

System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory returns current directory, not executable location, i.e. when run from outlook (sent as a link to \server\folder\file.exe it will set BaseDirectory to user documents instead executable location from Jakub Pawlinski whereas Directory.GetParent(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) gets the parent folder of the current execting assembly.

So the code I'm using now is:

string location = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
if (location != null)
{
    string config = Path.Combine(Directory.GetParent(location).FullName, "Config.xml"));
}

C#-Difference between System.CurrentDomain.AppDomain.BaseDirectory and Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

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