Visual Studio and Virus Scan of Temp folder

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DAC picture DAC · Oct 8, 2008 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

We are using Visual Studio 2008 as our primary development IDE. Our security team has set up McAfee to scan files in our \Local Settings\Temp folder. Unfortunately VS uses this directory during code builds which is slowing the developers down. We've reached an impasse with the security team on this, and wonder if anyone knows of a configuration setting in VS where we could change the folder to where those temporary files are written.

Thanks

Answer

shreeju picture shreeju · Jul 30, 2009

You can write a batch file which overwrites the %TEMP% and %TMP% variables and then launches visual studio. When the batch file overwrites an enviorment variables it is applicable only for that session, it does not modify the %TEMP% for applications launched from other batch files / system directly.

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