Despite all the negativity, there is a clean way to do this: The way I have found only requires the program be executed on an NTFS drive. The trick is to have your app copy itself to an alternate stream as soon as it’s launched, then execute that image and immediately close itself. This can … Read more
You can get the executing assembly path. string path = (new System.Uri(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase)).AbsolutePath; From there, you can obtain the drive letter (path root): string drive = Path.GetPathRoot(path); If your file is in the same directory as the executable, you can get the file path like this: string directory = Path.GetDirectoryName((new System.Uri(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase)).AbsolutePath); string databaseFile = Path.Combine(directory, “filename.dbf”); … Read more