[DUG] Vista

[Jeremy North]

MS have been saying for a long time (Win2000 they started) to not
write application data to the applications directory. You should be
writing to the Users application data folder.

On 2/22/07, Robert martin <rob at wildsoft.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I read that one issue with Vista is that apps can not (by default) write
> to \program files\.  Does anyone know what MS's suggested right way of
> doing this is...
>
> i.e. Store app in program files but store files in Docs and settings or
> are they encouraging people to store their exes outside of /program files/
>
> It will be interesting to see how BDS 2007 deals with this.  (BDS 2006
> and below all failed this test)
>
> We have frequently written small 1 off apps that write ini files into
> the same dir as the exe.