c# - Getting current directory in .NET web application

Question

So I have a web project, and I'm trying to get the root directory of the website using the c# method Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(). I don't want to be using a static path as the file locations will be changing in the future. This method is running in my imageProcess.aspx.cs file, but where I thought it would return:

C:Userscbldocumentsvisual studio 2010ProjectsModelMonitoringModelMonitoringimageProcess.aspx.cs

I'm instead getting:

C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedDevServer10.0

Can anyone explain why this is happening and what a possible solution might be? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

The current directory is a system-level feature; it returns the directory that the server was launched from. It has nothing to do with the website.

You want HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppPath.

If you're in an HTTP request, you can also call Server.MapPath("~/Whatever").