appdata

I have a Delphi 6 application that, like most Windows applications, reads/writes data to the user's "local application data" folder. I use the code below to determine that folder. Up until now, that code worked for most of my users. I have encountered a user whose local application data is not in the expected folder: C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Roaming\ Usually the local app data folder resolves to: C:\Documents and Settings\Bob\Application Data\ What is odd about this user's particular situation is that several registry keys normally found in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE are actually located in HKEY_CURRENT

How can you access files in %appdata% through VB.NET? For example, C:\Users\Kuzon\AppData\Roaming\program . How would I access that file, but on another Windows 7 machine? Also, how would you do it on Windows XP? I believe it is %Application Data% . When you're writing .NET code, it's recommended that you use the functions explicitly designed for this purpose, rather than relying on environment variables such as %appdata% . You're looking for the Environment.GetFolderPath method , which returns the path to the special folder that you specify from the Environment.SpecialFolder enumeration . The

I have a jar file that has been turned into a .exe using L4J, and another jar file in appdata. The reason for having two files is that I need an updating mechanism. My question: How do I run the .exe file on the desktop, then load the jar in appdata from it? You could use a URLClassLoader to load the second Jar at runtime. Depending on your needs, you may need a bridging interface (one that exists in both Jars) that you would call from your 'exe' to get the second Jar running...or you could simply use the second Jar's main method ;) The other choice you have is to run another JVM. UPDATE In

I've recently discovered the IsolatedStorage facilities in .net, and I'm wondering when I should use them for my application data versus when I should use (e.g.) Application.LocalUserAppDataPath . One thing that I've noticed is that Application doesn't exist outside of a winforms app, so it seems that IsolatedStorage might make sense for a class library that needs some specific storage, especially if that library might be used by both a web app and a winforms app. Is that the only distinguishing point, or is there more to it? (As a rule, up 'til now, I've made the app provide a file stream to