Changing default location of application folder in VS

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Cannot set Environmental variable for application folder ->Default Location.
For location: \Documents and Settings\{username}: environmental variable for XP is ‘%HOMEPATH%’
If Default Location is set to ‘%HOMEPATH%’ :application is debugged but on install generates an error:
ERROR: Cannot access network location “%HOMEPATH%.

How can I make it to install for current user: i.e c:\\Documents and Settings\{username}

Thanks,
Abhi

Posted 30-Sep-10 2:32am

abhishek.singh.valeteck

Updated 30-Sep-10 2:51am

Sandeep Mewara

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abhishek.singh.valeteck 30-Sep-10 8:33am

to be simple i want to set default location of application folder to \Documents and Settings\{username}

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Terence Wallace · Answer 1 · 2010-10-01T02:37:00

Solution 1

Have you tried:

Dim InstallPath As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments)

Posted 1-Oct-10 2:37am

Terence Wallace

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abhishek.singh.valeteck 1-Oct-10 9:00am

this has to be done in .INI file??
where exactly to use this, i was changing "default location" property of 'application folder' in the editor->file system