Question

I need to get the path of a specific font in my c:/windows/ folder
The below code works perfectly when the target framework is 4.0
But my application can target only 3.5 and i need to use this in a console application c#

How can i achieve this ? Thanks.

string arialuniTff = path.Combine(System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Fonts), "arial.TTF");

Error Msg in 3.5 : ‘System.Environment.SpecialFolder’ does not contain a definition

Answer 1

The fonts folder is typically located at %windir%\Fonts, so you should be able to get the location like this:

Path.Combine(
    System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("windir"),
    "Fonts");

It is a virtual folder, so in theory it could be located somewhere else. In practice, I’ve never seen that happen or heard of it happening. (Microsoft is confident enough in this location to reference it on their “how to install a font” page). I’m sure that if you’re trying to locate a specific file name like that you have good error handling already, though.

Bonus information:

You might know this already, but if you need to know what classes, methods, etc. are available in a specific version of the .net framework, you can find out from MSDN. Go to the documentation page (say this one on Environment.SpecialFolder), and click on the “.NET Framework 4.5” link in the top left corner and choose a different version to see the page you are looking at as it was in that version.