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The APP Object no longer exists in VB.NET, so calling App.Path to get the location of your application does not work. Thankfully there are many other ways to do this in VB.NET, here are a few. NOTE: Some of these will only work for forms and not DLL's without any UI. The first two that reference the System.Windows.Forms namespace will not work in a DLL with no UI. Here are a few examples: (I'm sure there are more.) Click here to copy the following block System.Windows.Forms.Application.ExecutablePath System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory() '//e.g "C:\My Projects\Projects\SQData\SQStudio\bin\" System.GetEntryAssembly().Location

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