Application path in vb.net

Dot net had made a total mess in giving you the path that your application is running

There are many ways to get your current path, unfortunately some of them work for some types of programs but don't work for others. I have tried this one and this one.

I have had to write programs that work in every one of the following types of applications

• Windows applications
• Dll files
• Dll files registered as COM objects
• Windows Services
• Web based applications
• Web services

And I realized the following way of getting the application path works for all of them

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

So people should use this instead of anything else.

I have noticed some people make the horrible mistake of mistaking "current directory" with what I have been referring to as "application path". They are VERY different things, current application may change if the user does something like opening his browser and going to c:\foo, the programmer may not notice this since he hasn't opened any folders when he was coding, so be careful of that too