Assured the Starcounter.Kinds assembly is signed with out Starcounter key; the strong name is a requirement to complete #2147.
Made the Starcounter assembly allow Starcounter.Kinds as a friend. With this, the later can utilize internals from Starcounter, among them the HostedFilePath of the application, and hence find the directory where a given application runs from. This finalize issue #2147.