getting location of installed application vb.net

i published an application in vb.net. the user will be able to install the application anywhere they choose on the computer (or perhaps not anywhere they cho开发者_运维百科ose but where ever the default location is). how can i programmatically get the location where the user installed the application? another words i need the application to know where it is running from. how do i detect that?

In runtime, you can use:

Application.StartupPath

Application.ExecutablePath 

that will tell you where your .exe is. Hope that helps.

If your app is a Windows Forms app you can use the Application static class, as others have noted. For other kinds of applications, use reflection:

Dim a = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()
Dim location = a.Location

I had to do this the other day, works great.

Like this:

Shared ReadOnly AppDirectory As String = _
     Path.GetDirectoryName(New Uri(GetType(Program).Assembly.CodeBase).LocalPath)

You can have a look at

Application.ExecutablePath Property

or

AppDomain.BaseDirectory Property

If you put this code in your exe then it will give you the path of the exe.

System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)