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Solution to AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

In the OnPaint event in winform, AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory gets the following path

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE

 

Application.ExecutablePath gets C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

 

 

 

file:///C:/Users/clu/AppData/Local/Microsoft/VisualStudio/15.0_74da2886/ProjectAssemblies/us6sa4js01/Accor.Windows.Forms.dll

 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/837488/how-can-i-get-the-applications-path-in-a-net-console-application

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(). 1Location

Combine that with System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName if all you want is the directory.

1As per Mr.Mindor’s comment:
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location returns where the executing assembly is currently located, which may or may not be where the assembly is located when not executing. In the case of shadow copying assemblies, you will get a path in a temp directory. System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase will return the ‘permanent’ path of the assembly.

 

https://stackoverflow.com/a/841320/3782855

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

Don’t use this. The BaseDirectory can be set at runtime. It is not guaranteed to be correct (like the accepted answer is).

 

entryAssembly.GetSatelliteAssembly

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file ‘file:///C:/Users/clu/AppData/Local/Microsoft/VisualStudio/15.0_74da2886/ProjectAssemblies/dgz79z6i01/en-US/Accor.Windows.Forms.resources.DLL’.
File name: ‘file:///C:/Users/clu/AppData/Local/Microsoft/VisualStudio/15.0_74da2886/ProjectAssemblies/dgz79z6i01/en-US/Accor.Windows.Forms.resources.DLL’

 

How do I get the path of the assembly the code is in?

Use codebase is the most accurate

I’ve defined the following property as we use this often in unit testing.

public static string AssemblyDirectory
{
    get
    {
        string codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase;
        UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(codeBase);
        string path = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path);
        return Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
    }
}

The Assembly.Location property sometimes gives you some funny results when using NUnit (where assemblies run from a temporary folder), so I prefer to use CodeBase which gives you the path in URI format, then UriBuild.UnescapeDataString removes the File:// at the beginning, and GetDirectoryName changes it to the normal windows format.