On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk>wrote:

>  On 08/07/2010 19:46, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Michael Foord<fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> 
> <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
>  Writing to C: in Vista and Windows 7 requires elevated permissions so your
> application will require admin privileges. Can you not choose another
> location to write to (one of the user folders)?
>
>
>
>  I could.  On linux I would write to /tmp is there a similar concept in
> windows vista and 7?
>
>
>
> There are multiple ways of finding the temporary directory in .NET.
>
>
>  Are there some good docs along the lines of .NET python equivalents of
>  win32api.GetUserName() and others?
>
>
>
>
> System.Environment.UserName
>
> System.Environment almost certainly has the temp directory as well. Check
> that or System.IO.Directory.
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael
>

System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName() will create and return the path to a
temporary file:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.gettempfilename.aspx
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