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Access to path is denied

I have the following line of code; when running on Vista or Win 7, I get the above message. So I figured that I'm not supposed to put application data in the Program Files directory.

So where is it supposed to go?

string xmlFilename = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "Options.xml";

            if (File.Exists(xmlFilename))
            {
                File.SetAttributes(xmlFilename, FileAttributes.Normal);  //  so we can write on the file
                using (XmlReader tr = XmlReader.Create(xmlFilename))
                {

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Praveen Venu

Right click on the folder where Options.xml exist
Select properties
Select Security Tab
type ASPNet and click OK
Now select ASPNET and set the read and write permissions

Praveen Venu

try this also

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/109216_access-to-the-path-is-denied-how-to-solve-this-problem-in-aspnet

rmmarsh

ASKER

Can't right click on the folder because it's on the user's machine.

Also, this is not ASPNET, it's C# .NET...

rmmarsh

ASKER

Actually, I changed the path to take it out of the c:\program files directory. Now, I don't get an error on the read, but only on the write. New code is below.

            string filename = @"C:\Prager\prager.Options.xml";

            XmlTextWriter tw = null;
            try
            {
                tw = new XmlTextWriter(filename, null);  //null represents the Encoding Type
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                if (ex.Message.Contains("prager.Options.xml' is denied"))
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("You do not have write permission to the prager.Options.xml file.  Disable UAC or run this program as Administrator, otherwise your options will not be saved.", "Prager, Software", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
                    return;
                }
            }

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Carnou

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Kenneniah

What Carnou said. You need to use the users profile to store program data, as Vista and Windows 7 by default don't allow programs to write to other locations. This has long been a programming rule and guideline from Microsoft for security. In Windows 7 and Vista they are finally enforcing it.

rmmarsh

ASKER

Thank you so much... I appreciate it.