Knowing the path of my project...

**dekelc** · Jan 25th, 2006, 05:15 PM

Hello!!

I am making a dll and want to know at run-time in which folder it is
installed.
how can I do that?

thanks!!!

**jmcilhinney** · Jan 25th, 2006, 06:59 PM

You know the location of the executable from Application.StartupPath. If your library may be in another location then you could use reflection:

Code:

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

There are some provisos with that property though, so you should read its help topic.

**dekelc** · Jan 26th, 2006, 04:45 PM

ok... thats' great for applications...

but what if I have a dll that I built and want to get his path from the
run-time of the dll?

**jmcilhinney** · Jan 26th, 2006, 05:27 PM

GetExecutingAssembly gets a reference to the current assembly, whatever that is.

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