location of current document

[edel_ong]

Hi, I'm a newbie at C#, I was wondering if there was a code for knowing the location of the current open C# document. Let's say I want to know the location(In string form) of Form1.cs, is there any code to represent this? Thank you very much :)

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

Can you be more specific? The opened C# file...are you trying to find out the file path of a C# file Visual Studio has opened?

[edel_ong]

Yes. Because I want to access a folder that is located in the same folder as the file but I can't seem to access it. it looks like this: Folder1 contains -Form1.cs -FolderIwantToAccess contains pic.bmp I want to access pic.bmp from Form1.cs Thanks a lot! -- modified at 22:35 Monday 6th February, 2006

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

Your .cs file doesn't execute directly. It gets compiled into your .exe file located in your \bin\debug\ directory. So your C# code will want to locate the bitmap relative to that directory. If your directory structure is

MyProject
-FolderIWantToAccess
-bin
-Debug

Then you can access the image from your app using "..\\..\\FolderIWantToAccess\\pic.bmp"

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[edel_ong]

I tried it but the program still doesnt read the picture file...I want to access the pic.bmp without directly enforcing the complete filepath (e.g. c:\mydocuments\sample\project\folderiwanttoaccess\pic.bmp <--i dont want to write this in the program source file...)

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

I understand what you're trying to do. You can access files in a higher directory level that the exe using "..\\". So if your .exe file is running from c:\mydocuments\sample\project\bin\debug\test.exe, you can locate the image from your C# code using // Adjust the line below depending on how many parent directories must be navigated upwards to read the folderIWantAccessTo directory. stromg pathToImage = "..\\..\\..\\folderIWantAccessTo\pic.bmp"; If you want to see what's going on with those "..\\" things, see what this returns: string path = Path.GetFullPath("..\\..\\..\\"); It should return your project root. From there the rest is easy, just append the folderIWantAccessTo\pic.bmp to the end of the string and you're good.

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[edel_ong]

I figured out what was lacking in your idea... there should be three "." instead of two. It is now working correctly. Thanks very much :)

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

I'm glad you figured it out.

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