Determine current module's physical path

Question

Inside a given Orchard module, how to determine the path to the physical directory where that module is installed?

In alternative, how to programatically determine the Module's name?

Answer 1

You can retrieve the module name twofold:

• Orchard module acts as an ASP.NET MVC 3 area, so answer to your second question is here and here. This is the better way.

• Or use reflection and get the name from the currently executing assembly, which is named like your module:

  Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name

If you have the name, getting the physical directory is as easy as writing:

HostingEnvironment.MapPath(@"~/Modules/" + moduleName)