Question

The Compact Framework doesn’t support Assembly.GetEntryAssembly to determine the launching .exe. So is there another way to get the name of the executing .exe?

EDIT: I found the answer on Peter Foot’s blog: http://peterfoot.net/default.aspx Here is the code:

byte[] buffer = new byte[MAX_PATH * 2];  int chars = GetModuleFileName(IntPtr.Zero, buffer, MAX_PATH);  if (chars > 0)  {  string assemblyPath = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(buffer, 0, chars * 2);  }  [DllImport('coredll.dll', SetLastError = true)]  private static extern int GetModuleFileName(IntPtr hModule, byte[] lpFilename, int nSize); 

Answer 1

I am not sure whether it works from managed code (or even the compact framework), but in Win32 you can call GetModuleFileName to find the running exe file.

MSDN: GetModuleFileName