Deployment of a project...How can the xml files generated not be read only?

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When I deploy a project, the project fails on creating XML files. It works fine in Visual Studio. It says they are read only when it's deployed.

Here is what I have for one of the two xml file generators:

C#

void write_pstest_file()
        {
            XDocument pstest_file = new XDocument(
                new XElement("testmenu",
                new XElement("showwebhelp", "true"),
                new XElement("menuitem",
                new XAttribute("key", "ca93df85-9204-4245-a587-b63439f4a3a2"),
                    new XElement("includefile", "picoTMS.pstest")
                    )
                )
            );
            pstest_file.Save("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Pico Technology\\PicoScope6 Automotive\\test.pstest");
        }

How can I make these non read-only so they can be created once the app is deployed? Google sites are of no-help. :(

Posted 8-Oct-12 10:22am

joshrduncan2012

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Oct-12 16:49pm

The question is: how they are read-only? What do you want to do with them?
--SA

joshrduncan2012 8-Oct-12 16:51pm

When I click submit on the entire program, I get an "Unhandled exception" of "System.UnauthorizedException" access to the path is denied. All I want to do is write this XML file to this particular directory. This code as is cannot be processed on a deployed instance, only works on Visual Studio itself.

Dave Kreskowiak 8-Oct-12 17:07pm

Visual Studio has nothing to do with it. It works on your machine because you're running the app as under an admin level account.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2012-10-08T11:06:00

Solution 1

You cannot store writable files to any folder under Program Files in Windows Vista and above.

You have to pick a more suitable place to store your writable files. Read:

Environment.GetFolderPath Method[^]
Environment.SpecialFolder Enumeration[^]

Posted 8-Oct-12 11:06am

Dave Kreskowiak