Visual Studio 2008 and Environment.CurrentDirectory - Overclock.net

MadCatMk2 · 03-25-09

Warning: I have never, ever read a single tutorial or book on Visual Studio Express 2008.
However, I'm making a small application in it.

In the process of making it a tad more user friendly I've decided to make it find out where it is located on its own.

I'm trying to use this:

Code:

Dim textFileStream As New IO.FileStream(Environment.CurrentDirectory & "\directory\blabla\tadah.txt", IO.FileMode.OpenOrCreate, IO.FileAccess.ReadWrite, IO.FileShare.None)

It seems however that "Environment.CurrentDirectory" (or anything similar I've tried so far) does not work in VB2008:
http://weblogs.asp.net/joshclose/arc...udio-2008.aspx

Porting the whole thing to VS2008 would be a real PITA at this point.

If someone could explain what I should do in uber-simple steps it would be great

kyotejones · 03-25-09

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ry(VS.71).aspx
Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

MadCatMk2 · 03-25-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by kyotejones

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ry(VS.71).aspx
Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'O:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\HKC KL4NQ.CGD\BE1L0D1C.W20\wind..tion_9e05d0f55a9e6a30 _0001.0000_d0bec19d65c58427\

kyotejones · 03-25-09

It would help if you posted the code. As far as the error goes it means the directory does not exist.

xtascox · 03-25-09

Forgive if I'm wrong (I haven't written anything in VB since Visual Studio 6 was top of the line) but I thought VB already works in the directory it is executed in.

Unless I'm completely missing the point here. It's been a long day here at work

EDIT: Try

Code:

App.Path

That may also include the executable in the path but you can strip that part out of the string.

MadCatMk2 · 03-25-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by kyotejones

It would help if you posted the code. As far as the error goes it means the directory does not exist.

It's looking in the wrong directory. The program is executed from a folder in the desktop, but it's looking in the place it states.

Edit: There's not much else to the code relevant to this, just

Code:

Dim myFileWriter As New IO.StreamWriter(textFileStream)

and I start replacing lines.

xtascox · 03-25-09

Did you try App.Path?

MadCatMk2 · 03-25-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by xtascox

Did you try App.Path?

It's not recognized properly, nor is AppPath for some reason.. =/

xtascox · 03-25-09

Check the properties and see if there is a working folder.

MadCatMk2 · 03-25-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by xtascox

Check the properties and see if there is a working folder.

There's none stated, but that would only work for my computer. If the installation is done somewhere else it wouldn't work, right?

Edit: Application.StartupPath has the same effect as above.

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