Can a prog find its own Name?

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Barry Flynn

Win Forms program - VB 2005.

I am converting a VB6 program to VB 2005.
The program wants to know its own name - ie the name of the .exe that has
been executed.
It gets this from App.exename

In VB 2005, I have replaced this with My.Application.Info.AssemblyName.
However, if the program has been renamed after it was Built, that returns
the name it was Built as, rather than the name of the .exe that has actually
been executed.

Is the name of the actual .exe available?

Thanks

Barry
 
Barry Flynn said:
Win Forms program - VB 2005.

I am converting a VB6 program to VB 2005.
The program wants to know its own name - ie the name of the .exe that has
been executed.
It gets this from App.exename

In VB 2005, I have replaced this with My.Application.Info.AssemblyName.
However, if the program has been renamed after it was Built, that returns
the name it was Built as, rather than the name of the .exe that has
actually been executed.

Is the name of the actual .exe available?

Thanks

Barry
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Will this work?

[C#]
System.Diagnostics.Process p =
System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess();
String n = p.ProcessName;

-Scott
 
Looks good.

Thanks

Barry


Scott M. said:
Barry Flynn said:
Win Forms program - VB 2005.

I am converting a VB6 program to VB 2005.
The program wants to know its own name - ie the name of the .exe that has
been executed.
It gets this from App.exename

In VB 2005, I have replaced this with My.Application.Info.AssemblyName.
However, if the program has been renamed after it was Built, that returns
the name it was Built as, rather than the name of the .exe that has
actually been executed.

Is the name of the actual .exe available?

Thanks

Barry
Click to expand...

Will this work?

[C#]
System.Diagnostics.Process p =
System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess();
String n = p.ProcessName;

-Scott
Click to expand...
 
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