"David White" wrote:

> The MSDN docs say, "If a path does not exist, one is created in the following
> format: BasePath\CompanyName\ProductName\ProductVersion". Where does the
> BasePath value come from? It seems the default is "C:\Documents and Settings\
> username\Application Data".
>
> But from which of the system environment variables (or elsewhere) is the
> BasePath value retrieved? The obvious options seem to be:
>
> %USERPROFILE%
>
> %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
>
> %HOME% (which is set = %USERPROFILE% on my system)
>
> These all resolve to the same location on my system. But for roaming users and
> users under Terminal Services, some of these locations can be relocated via
> startup scripts somehome (I think) to network locations. So these may all not
> always be equal (otherwise why all the different ways to do it?) and I need to
> know what changes are picked up by the .Net runtime and passed in.
>
> As an aside - does Application.UserAppDataPath always equal the environment
> variable %APPDATA%?
>
> Thanks.