Changing working folder of services

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Michael Groeger

Hi everybody,

I rewrote a component of us so that it is now a service. Unfortunateley the
service cannot start, because the third party product relies on expects to
be started from a special working folder. My service itself is placed in
this folder but when starting a service the working folder is always the
system folder AFAIK. Is it possible to changed this either using MMC or by
code?

Regards,
Michael
 
Michael Groeger said:
Hi everybody,

I rewrote a component of us so that it is now a service. Unfortunateley the
service cannot start, because the third party product relies on expects to
be started from a special working folder. My service itself is placed in
this folder but when starting a service the working folder is always the
system folder AFAIK. Is it possible to changed this either using MMC or by
code?
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Hi,

Try:

Environment.CurrentDirectory = (new
FileInfo(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)).DirectoryName.ToString()
;

in service.OnStart(...)

Regards,
Goran
 
Thanks, that works!

Goran Sliskovic said:
...

Hi,

Try:

Environment.CurrentDirectory = (new
FileInfo(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)).DirectoryName.ToString()
;

in service.OnStart(...)

Regards,
Goran
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