C#-Difference between System.CurrentDomain.AppDomain.BaseDirectory and Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

Question

Can anyone tell me what's the difference between System.CurrentDomain.AppDomain.BaseDirectory and Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() in C#, please??

See AppDomain on MSDN and also Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() on MSDN.

Answer 1

According to this question the difference is that

System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory returns current directory, not executable location, i.e. when run from outlook (sent as a link to \server\folder\file.exe it will set BaseDirectory to user documents instead executable location from Jakub Pawlinski whereas Directory.GetParent(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) gets the parent folder of the current execting assembly.

So the code I'm using now is:

string location = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
if (location != null)
{
    string config = Path.Combine(Directory.GetParent(location).FullName, "Config.xml"));
}