How to get the project path at Design Time

Question

I use a component (System.ComponentModel.Component) and I want to get the application path of my project in order to create a file within it.

Thx

Florian

Answer 1

The only thing that seemed to work (consistently) for me was obtaining EnvDTE.DTE (from the IServiceProvider you get from EditValue()), i.e.:

EnvDTE.DTE dte = envProvider.GetService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE)) as EnvDTE.DTE;
string dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(dte.Solution.FullName);

When I tried using Assembly.GetXAssembly, I got the temporary path VS uses in design-time.

Answer 2

Just call GetMyPath which is defined as

string GetMyPath([CallerFilePath] string from = null)
{
   return from;
}