Re: Creating directories on Vista machines using .NET

Hi Patrice,

Thanks for your feedback.

Yes, just as other community members pointed out, your code runs without
error because of the virtualization feature of Vista User Account
Control(UAC). That is, any write operation to the Program Files directory
is redirected to per-user local profile directory. If you are using Windows
Explorer to find the file, you will see a "Compatibility Files" button in
the toolbar. If you click this button, it will help you to navigate to the
redirected folder.

The best practise is using Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData to
find the per-user application data folder path and save the data there.
Please see my original thread below for more information:
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread638856.html

Finally, if you are interested to understand the Vista new UAC security
enhancement, I highly recommend "Mark Russinovich"'s online video below, it
is almost the best tech talk on UAC topic(level 400):
"Windows Vista User Account Control Internals"
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=360

Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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