dotnet setup: I want to add a folder to C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data in my setup project.

I rightclick the left window in file system editor in VS2003 setup
project to add a special folder but I can not find one that seems to be
what I want.

If I can not do it in the setup project I have to create the folder in
my app during application runtime using ALLUSERSPROFILE somehow. I dont
want to do that though.

how do I do it in the setup project

Visual Studio isn't very good at the folders thing. However if you
right-click on File System on Target Machine in the setup projects's IDE you
can add one of these folders as a destination choice: User's Application
Data or User's Personal Data. I think they would be a better choice because
when I look at Documents&Settings\All Users\Application Data ordinary users
can't write to it.
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Phil Wilson
[Microsoft MVP Windows Installer]

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Hi!

Add a custom installer to your app and use the aftercommit event.

wolfgang

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I did manage to create my folder in VS2003 setup project (at
Documents&Settings\All Users\Application Data).
But as you says Phil, limited users cant access the files in it (that
is if the files were created by an administrator). For test purpose I
had a limited user create a file in the folder and that file could be
accessed by both the limited creator and the administrator though.

I really need to have one file that everyone can read/write. Where
should a put such a file? Isn't there any globally accessible folder?
(Off scope a bit, but if someone knows the answer to this it would
really make my day).