Service Fabric application's root directory

Question

In my code I fail at

if (!File.Exists(_configurationFileName)) {...}

In the immediate window I made a call to Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() and it pointed me to the "work" folder rather than the "code" folder which I would have expected.

Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()
"C:\\SfDevCluster\\Data\\_App\\_Node_0\\My.Application.Type_App2\\work"

So my configuration file which is sitting right next to the executable is of course not being found.

Now I wonder what the solution is.
Since I also want to keep running the console application I don't want to implement any "if service fabric hosting, then change current directory, ..." workaround.

Any recommendations? What about my .exe.config files (if I had any, how would they be found)?

What's the reason for Service Fabric settings the current directory to "work"? Is this some kind of security mechanism?

Answer 1

This is how i just did it change the service manifest to point at the code

<EntryPoint>
  <ExeHost>
    <Program>configui.exe</Program>
    <WorkingFolder>CodePackage</WorkingFolder>
  </ExeHost>
</EntryPoint>