> I'm having a complete brainfart so I'll just let you all know the issue
> and listen to any possible solution you can offer without asking for a
> specific way to do this ;)
>
> I have a Solution ( VB 2005) that consists of 3 projects:  A Service, a
> Configuration Project, and the Deployment project.
>
> The config project is just the UI that will save settings to an XML
> file in the installation directory.
>
> The service loads this XML file.
>
> The problem is that the Service needs to know where this XML file is
> loaded.  If I hard code the path into it, if the user does not choose
> the default path then it will fail.
>
> My work around is that when I save the XML document, I save the
> complete path of this in the directory.  The problem therein lies that
> I have an  OpenFileDialog for importing some things into the
> configuration page.  Doing this changes the working directory so that
> the XML document is no longer saved in the installation's directory,
> but somewhere else.  Not a problem if I save the path of this document
> every time, but rather sloppy to have a programs config file on the
> desktop ;).
>
> So basically...I'm looking for a way to Store the Installation
> directory during setup time.  Or possible even a better solution.  I
> think I've been looking at work arounds too long that I've made myself
> blind to any good fix. 
>
> Thanks for the help!
> -Jesse
>