Ken Ray wrote:
> Well, here's the official word from Microsoft from their page
> "Developer Best Practices and Guidelines for Applications in a Least
> Privileged Environment"
> (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480150.aspx) :
>
> "Applications should be installed in the \Programs files\ directory.
> Per-user configuration information should be stored in the
> \Users\(username)\AppData directory. User data, templates, and
> application-created files all have proper locations in the
> \Users\(username) subdirectories. Although this was not enforced in the
> past, since many users would run programs with full administrative
> privileges, applications that do not place information in the correct
> location are likely to fail. This is especially true when
> Virtualization is turned off."
>
> This is #3 in the section "Designing Applications for Windows Vista" -
> it's worthy of a good read.
Thanks very much for this, very helpful and just what I was looking for.
For my apps, this is the relevant piece:
> # Write per-user data to the user profile (%APPDATA%).
> # Write per-machine data to users\all users\application data\...
(%ALLUSERSPROFILE%).
So apparently you're right and we can use AppData. I was especially
interested in the global user data location (AllUsersProfile). I
couldn't find that info when I did my search yesterday.
Looks like we are all going to have to update our apps for Vista.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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