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  1. Sep 18th, 2007, 07:54 AM #1
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    Saving application data!

    From what i understand it is among coding standards to write majority of the data to the Application Data folder (C:\WINDOWS\Application Data) is this true? A lot of the major products i have installed on my computer write stuff to that path. Does anyone know about this?
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    Re: Saving application data!

    The folder "C:\WINDOWS\Application Data" is not actually the correct place to use, however the folder which is known as %AppData% (which actually points to that location on your PC, but not in all cases) or %UserAppData% is recommended.

    One way to find those locations is with the SHGetSpecialFolderLocation API, but apparently that is no longer recommended from Vista onwards (but from what I have been told, it will work in Vista). I would assume that the .Net framework provides its own method, and that is probably supported after Vista.
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    Re: Saving application data!

    In VB.Net 2005:
    Code:
    My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.CurrentUserApplicationData
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