How to get the location of the DLL currently executing?

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You are looking for System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()

string assemblyFolder = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
string xmlFileName = Path.Combine(assemblyFolder,"AggregatorItems.xml");

Note:

The .Location property returns the location of the currently running DLL file.

Under some conditions the DLL is shadow copied before execution, and the .Location property will return the path of the copy. If you want the path of the original DLL, use the Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase property instead.

.CodeBase contains a prefix (file:\), which you may need to remove.

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