Question

For several of our applications we use an application configuration file. It usually just stores some directory paths and a few universal settings. We usually save it in the application directory (C:/Program Files/MyAppName)

One problem we see is users want to edit this (from the application) while logged in as a user that doesn’t have access to write to the directory. Our applications are commonly installed and initially configured as an admin, but mostly used by (several different) limited users.

Is there a good way to make the setting.xml file read/write accessible to all users? Or a good place to put it?

Answer 1

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\<Your App> might be a decent place to consider.