Relative Path to Application in VB 2008

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The application I'm developing populates list boxes by reading a text file at the form load event. At the moment I have the file located in C:\ and that's the path in my program.
When I build the project I would like the text file to be in the same folder as the app (or a sub folder), so how do I make the path relative?

ie FileReader = New StreamReader(Relative Path)

Paul

Posted 5-May-10 13:22pm

Paul Bayley

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Thanks very much. Worked like a charm.
It's so easy when you know how !!
Still learning.

Posted 5-May-10 14:17pm

Paul Bayley

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Christian Graus 5-May-10 20:19pm

No problems. You should use the Add Comment link to add comments, rather than push answer when what you're posting is not an answer. But, I do appreciate you thanking me, not many people do. You should also mark my comment as being the correct answer, so that the search system can optimise to use the data we've provided. If you feel inclined, you can also vote my answer a 5, but that's up to you. Either way, you're welcome :-)

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-05T13:39:00

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You don't. You look up the startup path, it's a property of the Application object.

Posted 5-May-10 13:39pm

Christian Graus