Determining the driectory exe was installed to 2

[sicohne]

My program needs to read a text file from the directory which the program is installed to. Since the user can choose there own installation path, the location of the text file is variable. Is there a way of saving the path chosen (to the registry or some other suggestion)?

 

[Kris11]

You might be able to use Environment.CurrentDirectory.

-Kris

 

[kevinf2349]

I use the same method as Kris:

path = System.Environment.CurrentDirectory
Dim inifilename as string = "yourfile.txt"

If Not File.Exists(path & "\" & inifilename) Then
MsgBox("The required file (" & inifilename & ") is missing from path" & vbCrLf & path, MsgBoxStyle.Critical, "Missing file")
Exit Sub
End If

 

[sicohne]

Thanks, that seems to work (have only testing it with Debug and not by installing it yet, but don't see why it shouldn't work)