Question about System.Enviroment.GetFolder()

[Anthony Papillion]

So I'm trying to build a path variable that points to a longer path so I
don't have to keep typing out the entire thing. I discovered the
GetSpecialFolder() method and I'm trying to use it like this:

Friend AppDataPath as String =
System.Enviroment.GetFolderPath(Enviroment.GetSpecialFolder.ApplicationData())
& "\myAppName"

My thought is, instead of typing the whole path to the users ApplicationData
folder, I could simply substitute the AppDataPath variable there. However,
the compiler is complaining that I can't convert an integer to a string or
something like that and I can't seem to fix it.

So I displayed the path in a messagbox like this:

MsgBox(AppDataPath)

and I get something like "26\myAppName" instead of any real path.

WTF? What is going on here?
Someone at the MSDN forums told me that I can append my own text to the
returned string but I can't see WHY that would be. Is that true? If it is,
is there a workaround?


Thanks for the help everyone.

Anthony

 

[Armin Zingler]

So I'm trying to build a path variable that points to a longer path so I
don't have to keep typing out the entire thing. I discovered the
GetSpecialFolder() method and I'm trying to use it like this:

Friend AppDataPath as String =
System.Enviroment.GetFolderPath(Enviroment.GetSpecialFolder.ApplicationData())
& "\myAppName"

My thought is, instead of typing the whole path to the users ApplicationData
folder, I could simply substitute the AppDataPath variable there. However,
the compiler is complaining that I can't convert an integer to a string or
something like that and I can't seem to fix it.

So I displayed the path in a messagbox like this:

MsgBox(AppDataPath)

and I get something like "26\myAppName" instead of any real path.

WTF? What is going on here?
Someone at the MSDN forums told me that I can append my own text to the
returned string but I can't see WHY that would be. Is that true? If it is,
is there a workaround?


Thanks for the help everyone.

I don't get it. The line above creates that String? Or which line does it?
The code above is not compilable anyway. What's your _real_ code?

Dim AppDataPath As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData) & "\myAppName"

And it returns what I expect. No 26 in it.

side note: IO.Path.Combine is nice.

 

[Family Tree Mike]

So I'm trying to build a path variable that points to a longer path so I
don't have to keep typing out the entire thing. I discovered the
GetSpecialFolder() method and I'm trying to use it like this:

Friend AppDataPath as String =
System.Enviroment.GetFolderPath(Enviroment.GetSpecialFolder.ApplicationData())
& "\myAppName"

My thought is, instead of typing the whole path to the users
ApplicationData folder, I could simply substitute the AppDataPath
variable there. However, the compiler is complaining that I can't
convert an integer to a string or something like that and I can't seem
to fix it.

So I displayed the path in a messagbox like this:

MsgBox(AppDataPath)

and I get something like "26\myAppName" instead of any real path.

WTF? What is going on here?
Someone at the MSDN forums told me that I can append my own text to the
returned string but I can't see WHY that would be. Is that true? If it
is, is there a workaround?


Thanks for the help everyone.

Anthony

First, I highly recommend using Path.Combine(part1, part2) to build full
paths, rather than part1 & part2. You won't need to eorry about missing
or extra slashes at the joints.

As Armin alluded to, your code which produced 26\myAppName is not shown.

Likely, what you did was:
Environment.GetSpecialFolder.ApplicationData & "myAppName".

GetSpecialFolder is an enumeration which equates to an int in your case.
This is why the Environment.GetFolderPath is necessary, to get the
actual string for the enumeration value.

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Hallo Anthonhy,

It works seldom with so many typos and using a method instead of the enum

Friend AppDataPath As String =
System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)

Success

Cor