How to get the "Windows" directory?

[parsifal]

Hi,

I'm wondering how you can use the standard C# library to get the
"windows" directory? (e.g. "c:/windows"). I need to specify the
location of a config file in a service, and I don't want to hard-code
anything.

Thanks.

 

[M. Genuini]

"System.Environment.SystemDirectory" returns the fully qualified path
of the system directory (In my case C:\Winnt\system32).

Hope it can help you

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Hi,

I'm wondering how you can use the standard C# library to get the
"windows" directory? (e.g. "c:/windows"). I need to specify the
location of a config file in a service, and I don't want to hard-code
anything.

Thanks.

Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("windir");

Note that a config file should not reside in the windows directory either,
it should reside in the same directory as your service .exe.

Willy.

 

[parsifal]

Thanks! That should work well!

Thanks for the lightning-quick reply!

 

[parsifal]

Oh okay, so I can just do relative paths? Sounds fine to me.

Where should services be stored?