Relative Paths (or CurrentDirectory) wrong if called with arguments?

Hello Community,

i got a very strange behaviour here.

For example, i am working in the directory: C:\Test. When I call my assembly, abc.exe, the Environment.CurrentDirectory (or all relative paths) are C:\Test.
Now, my file takes files as arguments (like an Editor). So when i drag and drop a file (test.txt) on my exacutable, the Environment.CurrentDirectory variable (and relative Paths) change to my default User directory which is something like C:\Files and Settings\Username\... and so on

Why does this happen
How can i get the Path, where the File is located

I am working on .Net 2.0 beta 2

Thanks in advance!!!
Your help is very appreciated.

Thomas

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Relative Paths (or CurrentDirectory) wrong if called with arguments?

Michael Miller
Maybe this will work for you:
this.GetType().Assembly.Location
Joenormal
You need to view the command line arguments and not the environment path when a user drops a file on the executable. As to why CWD defaults to the user is unknown to me...most likely its a default location for shared document access.

Examplestatic void Main(string[] args)
{

    Console.WriteLine("CWD: " + Environment.CurrentDirectory);

    foreach (string arg in args)
        Console.WriteLine(arg);

    Console.ReadLine();

}

Output
CWD: C:\Documents and Settings\OmegaMan
C:\FilterLog.log
Relative Paths (or CurrentDirectory) wrong if called with arguments?

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