Get the Application Running Path in App.xaml.cs

Question

How can I get runnig path of my application from app.xaml.cs itself?

Answer 1

You can just use the System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs property to get the command line that started the application. Parse that with the System.IO.Path methods to extract just the executable's filename or full path.

var exeName = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(
    System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()[0]);
MessageBox.Show("This exe's filename is " + exeName);

Answer 2

You could try

Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

and/or

Environment.CurrentDirectory