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copied!<p>Update:</p> <blockquote> <p>Folder is created at run time with current time as the name. This process is done by the application. Here i know the folder name but i didn't know path, because path is selected by the user during installation and installation is done before very long time.</p> </blockquote> <p>That changes the question considerably. Why not use the application to tell you where it lives:</p> <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.application.startuppath.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.application.startuppath.aspx</a></p> <hr> <p>I had a similar idea ages ago and wrote about it as a Code Project Tip: </p> <p><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/132804/Open-folders-using-a-Run-Command" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/132804/Open-folders-using-a-Run-Command</a></p> <p>Otherwise you would need to index every folder on the PC and make them unique names and look up the full path that way.</p> <p>The other suggestion I have is using LogParser as the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10965280/most-efficient-way-to-find-all-exe-files-on-disk-using-c">Most efficient way to find all exe files on disk using C#?</a> Its a free Microsoft product but I'm not sure about re-dist permissions, I had to include it in my package separately last time I used it. It full on flys, faster than a speeding train!</p> <p>I found a <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carloc/archive/2007/08/31/find-folder-size-conditionally-with-logparser.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Log Parser example</a> that finds folders, you could try it out and adapt it if its useful:</p> <pre><code>SELECT TOP 1 * FROM C:\TFS\Project\*.* WHERE INDEX_OF(Path, 'Database') > 0 </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>The good folks over at <a href="http://visuallogparser.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://visuallogparser.codeplex.com/</a> have provided us with the source code.</p> </blockquote> <p>Open the <a href="http://visuallogparser.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VisualLogParser</a> solution in VS2010, ignore the prompt about debugging, after the solution loads, F5, set the combo-box to FS (FileSystem), paste in this query and press go. </p>

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