✅ Get build output directory at compile time?

The current project I'm working on is a set of plugins to be run inside another application. When I first started, I would have to relaunch the application every time I made a change to my code, which took a while. Since then, I've added a new plugin to the

DEBUG

DEBUG

build of the project which monitors the Visual Studio output directory and, if it notices a change in any of the DLL files, will find and reload the plugin that changed without restarting the application. This has been a huge help.

Now, in this plugin is the absolute path of the directory to monitor

public string buildDirectory = "C:\\Users\\Temp\\.......\\bin\\Output";

public string buildDirectory = "C:\\Users\\Temp\\.......\\bin\\Output";

This has worked great while on my desktop PC, but I'd like the ability to work on the project while on my laptop or other device. Ideally, this workflow would just involve pulling/pushing from GitHub w/o needing to manually change this one string on each device.

Does Visual Studio have something like a OUTPUT macro that evaluates to the build directory at compile time or something of that nature? (yes, I know C# doesn't have C-style macros so this probably isn't the right terminology)

And/or could I store the the value in something like

path.txt

path.txt

which is in my

.gitignore

.gitignore

and is substituted into the string as a precompiler step or something of that nature?

I don't think there's a way to do it at runtime, because the assembly won't be run in the build directory...

Thanks!

✅ Get build output directory at compile time?

DEBUG

DEBUG

public string buildDirectory = "C:\\Users\\Temp\\.......\\bin\\Output";

public string buildDirectory = "C:\\Users\\Temp\\.......\\bin\\Output";

path.txt

path.txt

which is in my

.gitignore

.gitignore

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