How to get current working directory path c#?

Question

I have a cursor file in project. I have given the absolute path in code i.e

F:/r.cur  

the problem is this is hard-coded path And i Want relative path so that if i move my solution to another system the code should not effect.

please suggest how to set relative path

//current code i am using 
 p.Cursor = new Cursor("F:/r.cur");

Solution 1

You can use static Directory class - however current directory is distinct from the original directory, which is the one from which the process was started.

System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();

So you can use the following to get the directory path of the application executable:

System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Windows.Forms.Application.ExecutablePath);

Solution 2

use Application.StartupPath returns path for the executable file that started the application.

        string pathCur = Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, @"..\..\r.cur");
        Cursor = new Cursor(pathCur);

Solution 3

You can also get by
System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
but it shows bin and debug folder also, if you don't want these folder so you can use that code :

string page = "E:\abccom\Cat\Mouse.aspx"

string name = Path.GetFileName(page );
string nameKey = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(page );
string directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(page );

Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}",
page, name, nameKey, directory);

Output:

GetFileName:                                        Mouse.aspx
GetFileNameWithoutExtension:           Mouse
GetDirectoryName:                              E:\abccom\Cat

Happy Coding :)

Solution 4

Super late to this party, but this works for me when I'm in unit tests.

var currentDirectory = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();

If you need the root of the project, and not the bin directory then this:

var currentDirectory = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
var basePath = currentDirectory.Split(new string[] { "\\bin" }, StringSplitOptions.None)[0];

It'll be different if you're on a website.

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Comments

[yogeshkmrsoni01]

Its returning the C:\Users\yogeshkmrsoni\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\ProjectName\bin\Release ; but i want to copy cursor file to C:\Users\yogeshkmrsoni\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\ProjectName\r.cur, can u suggest any other way

[Avinash Jain]

The above code dosen't work in WPF as as it not have System.Windows.Forms namespace. Use the following instead System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Diagnostics.Process.G‌​etCurrentProcess().M‌​ainModule.FileName)

[sonyisda1]

just to note: this is only for WinForms