How can I programmatically retrieve the app_data path

[MBursill]

I have an XML file in my app_data directory. My Data Access layer (a class library project) needs to know where the XML file is. I currently have:

c:\projects\My website\ (solution file is here)
c:\projects\My website\website (aspx files, web config, & junk)
c:\projects\My website\website\app_data\ (a few database files and an xml file)
c:\projects\My website\websiteDA\ (project folder for data access class library)

If I add the DA class library project as a reference to my website project, is there any way for the class library to know what the data directory of the website may be. Using something like: XmlTextReader settingsReader = new XmlTextReader("settings.xml"); tells me it's looking in: C:\projects\My website\ the same folder as the solution file. Very odd. I would have expected c:\projects\My website\website DB access gets around this by somehow parsing "|DataDirectory|" in the connection string, resolving it to match the app_data path. Could I do something similar? -Mike.

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Server.MapPath("settings.xml") http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iissdk/html/270433db-6a1a-42b1-86fa-9c4ca07b75e1.asp[^]

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[MBursill]

That works if I'm trying to resolve a path from a page in the web project. However, I'm trying to accomplish the same from inside a class library referenced by the web project. -Mike.

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The class library code is running in appdomain of the web application so you have access to the HttpContext.Current.Server.

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[MBursill]

I managed to solve my own problem, and here it is:

string strDataDirectory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData("DataDirectory").ToString();

http://blogs.msdn.com/smartclientdata/archive/2005/08/26/456886.aspx -Mike.