Default Location to System Drive in Setup and Deployment Project

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Thanasis Ioannidis picture Thanasis Ioannidis · May 27, 2013 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

I have a setup and deployment project in Visual Studio 2010

The default location of Application Folder is set to C:\[Appname]

The problem is that if there is no drive C: in the machine the app is being installed, the installer will crash with an error "'xxxxxxxx' is not a valid file name" or something similar, because the installer verifies the location before the user has a chance to set the actual application installation folder. (so the default location is validated and since drive c: is missing it throws this error)

You can set the location to something like [ProgramFilesFolder]\[AppName] etc..

I would like to know what is the "macro" for the system's windows drive! I would expect something like [WindowsDrive] or [SystemDrive] or something like that so that I could set the default location to [SystemDrive]\[Appname], for instance!

Does anybody know?

Answer

Paul Steane picture Paul Steane · Jun 14, 2013

I think http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372057.aspx contains the info you are looking for(for .NET 3.5, other frameworks may differ).

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