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You can determine the absolute path of any file in Windows by right-clicking a file and then clicking Properties. In the file properties first look at the "Location:" which is the path to the file. In the picture below, the location is "c:\odesk\computer_hope".
type Command The type command can not only show the path of a Linux command, but it can also tell if the target is built-in, a function, an alias, or an external executable.
MSDN has an article that says to use System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase; if you need the directory, use System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName on that result.
Or, there's the shorter Application.ExecutablePath which "Gets the path for the executable file that started the application, including the executable name" so that might mean it's slightly less reliable depending on how the application was launched.
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory
using System.Reflection;
string myExeDir = new FileInfo(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location).Directory.ToString();
var dir = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
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