Expand environment variable for My Documents

Question

I know I can read environment variables like this:

Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);

However, it would be r

Answer 1

No there is no environment variable for the MyDocuments special folder (the same is true for most members of the SpecialFolder enumeration).

Check out this snippet, it might be exactly what you are searching for.

It allows you to do something like that:

string fullPath = SpecialFolder.ExpandVariables(@"%MyDocuments%\Foo");

Note: SpecialFolder.ExpandVariables is a static method of a helper class introduced in the above snippet.