Work with temp folder

[vagueante]

Hi,

I hava a form app, that runs hidden, with just a notify icon, the goal is control worker schedule and alert them for some things they have to do.

My problem is,when i open a form (with TopMost = True), it works if the user is admin of the machine or domain admin, if the user is "regular" user, the form just don't open or shown to the screen.

I believe that it has got something to do with write permissions in the app folder. I have a contextmenu that works great, even restoring the hidden main form, it just doesn't show/open the other form, without any error.

Shouldn't .net use the user $temp folder to write something? If not what's the best way for the app use the EnvironmentVariable("temp")?

Thanks

 

[Tom]

Not sure to the reasoning of the form not appearing but there are several options for getting the temp directory path

GetEnvironmentVariable("Temp")
Results: C:\DOCUME~1\UserAccountName\LOCALS~1\Temp


IO.Path.GetTempPath
Results : C:\Documents and Settings\UserAccountName\Local Settings\Temp

I would use the following for data that needs to be saved rather then temporary though:

Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData)

 

[vagueante]

That's good idea, and i'll use it for temp data, but the other problem persists, i only need to open a form and show a count down with two buttons and two choices, and it still don't open no matter what and without any error, i'm lost

 

[Tom]

If I file could not be created/opened because of permissions, I would expect that you would receive an error rather then a form just not showing. Unless you handled the error without displaying a message.

 

[vagueante]

If I file could not be created/opened because of permissions, I would expect that you would receive an error rather then a form just not showing. Unless you handled the error without displaying a message.

Sorry for the late reply, but had to test in production pc's.

In our domain policy in every folder created in c:, inside program files also, the permissions don't allow modify.

I've changed user permissions, and the form's start showing, so the problem is basically permissions in the APP folder.

So i assume that the APP writes in app folder, is there a way to put it writing in the user temp folder as a workingdir?

I'm using a setup project to create the install package

 

[Tom]

Yes in the install project you can choose the output files path for each file.

 

[vagueante]

Yes in the install project you can choose the output files path for each file.

Yes, that i know, but i don't want to write anything, but for some reason if the folder doesn't have permissions, the forms don't open

 

[cjard]

No error at all? Youre not catching and discarding the error are you?