How To Get The Ful Path Of A File When I Give The File Name

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How to get the ful path of a file when i give the file name in vb.net

Posted 15-Oct-15 22:55pm

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Andy Lanng 16-Oct-15 5:04am

You can't
If you have a file called new.txt in the root C: and root D:, then how could we tell which one is which?

What is your goal? How to you expect to achieve it? What code have you tried?

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-10-15T23:10:00

The file name is not immediately matchable to a file - it contains no path information.
You can however get the application current path with

C#

string curPath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();

Or

C#

string assPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

Or

C#

string appPath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);

which get you the path the assembly and application reside in respectively.

But...if you are writing to the file, you should look at keeping it in a defined location. Where should I store my data?[^] suggests some suitable places.