Question

I am working on an application where I have an images folder relative to my application root. I want to be able to specify this relative path in the Properties -> Settings designer eg. ‘\Images\’. The issue I am running into is in cases where the Environment.CurrentDirectory gets changed via an OpenFileDialog the relative path doesn’t resolve to the right location. Is there a way to specifiy in the Settings file a path that will imply to always start from the application directory as opposed to the current directory? I know I can always dynamically concatenate the application path to the front of the relative path, but I would like my Settings property to be able to resolve itself.

Answer 1

As far as I know, there is no built-in functionality that will allow this type of path resolution. Your best option is to dynamically determine the applications executing directory and concatenate to it your images path. You don’t want to use Environment.CurrentDirectory specifically for the reasons you mention – the current directory may not always be correct for this situation.

The safest code I’ve found to find the executing assembly location is this:

public string ExecutingAssemblyPath() {    Assembly actualAssembly = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();    if (this.actualAssembly == null)    {       actualAssembly = Assembly.GetCallingAssembly();    }    return actualAssembly.Location; }