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Windows Default Directories

If I was pointing my app to a particular directory, I would just use:
"C:\Whateve r\"

But - If I want my app to use one of the Windows default directories
(Desktop, MyDocuments), since they can be different, depending on which
operating system, so how can I define this in code (like - Desktop)?
Nov 6 '06 #1
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"Elmo Watson" <sp*****@yahoo. comschrieb:
But - If I want my app to use one of the Windows default directories
(Desktop, MyDocuments), since they can be different, depending on which
operating system, so how can I define this in code (like - Desktop)?
Check out 'System.Environ ment.GetFolderP ath'.

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Nov 6 '06 #2
Using event variables (i.e. %Systemroot% for C:\Windows or \Winnt in
2000) would work well also.

Elmo Watson wrote:
If I was pointing my app to a particular directory, I would just use:
"C:\Whateve r\"

But - If I want my app to use one of the Windows default directories
(Desktop, MyDocuments), since they can be different, depending on which
operating system, so how can I define this in code (like - Desktop)?
Nov 7 '06 #3

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