What is the best way to determine the path to the ISV directory?

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Published on 2010-01-28T00:40:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 3:03 UTC
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I'm currently storing xml files in the ISV directory along with my web applications. From a plugin (or potentially a seperate app), I need to find an easy way to navigate to the ISV directory to read these xml files. This routine will be called extremely often, so processing minimization should be a strong consideration.

Potential solutions:

Registry: There is a registry key called 'WebSitePath' with the data 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CRM'. Could potentially use this to build the path. (Will this be the same on all systems/installations?)
IIS directory data: Looping through the DirectoryEntries of path '"IIS://localhost/W3SVC"' I could obtain the the web application where description is equal to "Microsoft Dynamics CRM". (Will this be the same on all systems/installations?)
Webservice: Create one to read and return the data contained in these xml files The webservice would have easy access to its executing directory.
Database: Store the data of these files in the database.

Help:

Can anyone suggest a simpler solution to obtaining and reading a file from the ISV directory? If not, which of the above solutions would be the quickest to process?

Thanks for any and all contributions.

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