Find Working Project Directory in C#.Net

Question

I have used Directory.getCurrentDirectory();

its giving only C:\Windows\SysWOW64

but i need to get the visual studio default project folder how can i get that ?

ex:C:\Users\knallasi\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\SampleApp

how do we find that above project location ?

Thanks in Advance

What type of application is it? I'm asking bec. I wonder if your process context might be a service (like the iis app pool maybe) — Aaron Anodide, Feb 01 '11 at 04:51

David · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-01T04:54:20.717

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I'm not sure about the PROJECT directory, but the directory of the executing assembly can be found by using

string currentAssemblyDirectoryName = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

usually, if you're executing in Visual Studio, the project directory is up two levels, you you could trim "bin\release| or "bin\debug" of that string to get the project directory, but that's a bit of a hack. I'm not sure there is a way to get the project directory from code.

edited Feb 01 '11 at 04:54

answered Feb 01 '11 at 04:47

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thanks david this is what i too thought already but trimming "bin\debug" is the only thing we want to do ! – nallskarthi Feb 01 '11 at 05:01
System.Reflection.Assembly, in case you are not "using" it already – hello_earth Feb 26 '14 at 08:38

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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After lots of searching I found the "dirty hack" solution for accessing things like $(ProjectDir) from within your code.

What's an easy way to access prebuild macros such as $(SolutionDir) and $(DevEnvDir) from code in C#?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Jan 02 '12 at 20:49

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