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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:33:03+00:00

I am debugging a VB6 executable. The executable loads dlls and files from it’s

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I am debugging a VB6 executable. The executable loads dlls and files from it’s current directory, when running. When run in debugger, the current directory seems to be VB6’s dir.

How do I set working directory for VB6?

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  1. It doesn’t seems to be a ‘out of the box’ solution for this thing.

    Taken from The Old Joel On Software Forums

    Anyways.. to put this topic to rest.. the following was my VB6 solution: I define 2 symbols in my VB project ‘MPDEBUG’ and ‘MPRELEASE’ and call the following function as the first operation in my apps entry point function.

    Public Sub ChangeDirToApp() #If MPDEBUG = 0 And MPRELEASE = 1 Then   ' assume that in final release builds the current dir will be the location   ' of where the .exe was installed; paths are relative to the install dir   ChDrive App.path   ChDir App.path #Else   ' in all debug/IDE related builds, we need to switch to the 'bin' dir   ChDrive App.path   ChDir App.path & BackSlash(App.path) & '..\bin' #End If End Sub
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