[xKillerKev7x]

Hey everyone I want to get a variable to recognizable the install directory.. How would I do this?

[modi123_1]

Like the environment's "CurrentDirectory"?

http://msdn.microsof...nvironment.aspx

[xKillerKev7x]

modi123_1, on 14 February 2013 - 05:51 PM, said:

Like the environment's "CurrentDirectory"?

http://msdn.microsof...nvironment.aspx

a good example is lets say its installed to C:\Kevin\Example\ I want it to automatically look for that but also add my own custom to it like C:\Kevin\Example\Patches\Game.txt

Thanks guys

[modi123_1]

Okay.. I am not sure if that is a question or what. Did you read up on 'current directory'?

[Skydiver]

CurrentDirectory is good only until that program brings up an OpenFileDialog or SaveFileDialog and the user changes the current directory. (The programmer has to consciously set the RestoreDirectory property to true since the default value is false. Since the current crop of programmers just use Intellisense and don't bother to read the documentation, the chances of a programmer knowing that they should set RestoreDirectory to true is low.)

[Curtis Rutland]

Well, there's at least one other option:

Application.ExecutablePath

That returns a string with the path of the actual executable. From that, you can parse the directory using Path.GetDirectoryName. Or you could make a FileInfo from it and get the directory that way. Regardless, that doesn't have to deal with the messy idea of a "current path".

To "add your own custom" (directory names, I guess) you'd use Path.Combine