C# 2008 SP1
I am using the code below:
dt.ReadXml("%AppData%\\DateLinks.xml");
However, I am getting an exception that points to the location of where my application is running from:
Could not find a part of the path
'D:\Projects\SubVersionProjects\CatDialer\bin\Debug\%AppData%\DateLinks.xml'.
I thought the %AppData%
should find the relative path. When I go Start|Run|%AppData%
windows explorer takes me to that directory.
I can not put the full path in, as the user is different on each client machine.
Best Answer
To get the AppData directory, it's best to use the
GetFolderPath
method:(must add
using System
if not present).%AppData%
is an environment variable, and they are not automatically expanded anywhere in .NET, although you can explicitly use theEnvironment.ExpandEnvironmentVariable
method to do so. I would still strongly suggest that you useGetFolderPath
however, because as Johannes Rössel points out in the comment,%AppData%
may not be set in certain circumstances.Finally, to create the path as shown in your example: