"eduwushu" <eduwu***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi i have an application wich have to retrieve information of files. I
> have
> an openfiledialog on which i cans elect a file and then i retrieve the
> path
> to the file selected on it by the user.I create a FileInfo object with
> that
> path
> Well when i later try to create a new fileinfo object passing to the
> constructor teh relative path of another file it cant find the file
> because
> automatically it puts the path i used before to create another fileinfo
> object at the beginning of my path. For example if i create a first File
> Info
> object this way:
>
> FielInfo info=new FileInfo("C:\Program Files\Folder\hello.txt");
>
> when i try to create this second
>
> FileInfo info=new FileInfo("goodbye.txt");
>
> it throws me an exception saying that the file "C:\Prtogram
> Files\Folder\goodbye.txt" doesnt exists. (Of course it doesnt exists on
> that
> location because the file goodbye.txt it is suposed to be in the same
> folder
> as the executable of my application)
>
> Can someone tell me what can i do
>
> Many thanbks

"Michael D. Ober" wrote:

> When you don't provide a path for the fileinfo class, it uses the
> application's current drive and directory for the path.  This has been a
> documented invariant since MS-DOS 1.10.
>
> Mike Ober.
>
> "eduwushu" <eduwu***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:272296FF-0F4B-45B5-B89D-FAFE5FE7631B@microsoft.com...
> > Hi i have an application wich have to retrieve information of files. I
> > have
> > an openfiledialog on which i cans elect a file and then i retrieve the
> > path
> > to the file selected on it by the user.I create a FileInfo object with
> > that
> > path
> > Well when i later try to create a new fileinfo object passing to the
> > constructor teh relative path of another file it cant find the file
> > because
> > automatically it puts the path i used before to create another fileinfo
> > object at the beginning of my path. For example if i create a first File
> > Info
> > object this way:
> >
> > FielInfo info=new FileInfo("C:\Program Files\Folder\hello.txt");
> >
> > when i try to create this second
> >
> > FileInfo info=new FileInfo("goodbye.txt");
> >
> > it throws me an exception saying that the file "C:\Prtogram
> > Files\Folder\goodbye.txt" doesnt exists. (Of course it doesnt exists on
> > that
> > location because the file goodbye.txt it is suposed to be in the same
> > folder
> > as the executable of my application)
> >
> > Can someone tell me what can i do
> >
> > Many thanbks
>
>
>