How do I access my own directory

Question

I am asking this question in this forum in the hope that someone will provide a simple answer to what I thought was a trivial problem.  I have three different projects that I have working very well in my Visual Studio Environment.  My solutions all have a common directory for obtaining application specific data and creating reports for various users.  This has allowed me to develop and test in my environment without interruption.  In my code, using VB, I merely change directory to "/SDATA" proceed using normal file IO for whatever.  My problem occurs when I deploy these applications.  My server rejects the use of C:\Sdata for obvious reasons.  Here is where I am stuck!

I need a method of setting my directory to the server's root.  I was given an answer on another forum that said I need to employ environment.special folder.  I am unsure if this is what I am seeking and in trying to understand it in its documentation I drew a complete blank.  Can someone out there confirm or hopefully deny, that the answer lies in what I have said?  If you deny, can you provide me with an alternative for accomplishing what I need?  It seems to me that ultimately I need a reference or a logical assignment to the server's root directory.

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eps123

Answer 1

IDK if it willhelp, but give it a try

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Answer 2

I finally solved it with the little routine pasted below

Imports System.IO
'the objective of this little routine is to test the ability to deploy the application and execute successfully on the website
'The routine executes successfully in the vs2013 local server environment but after deployment, fails on the server.
'Initially, the directory was positioned in the c:\ root which was ideal since multiple projects must access the directory, SDATA.
'The failure on the site was that C:\ is an invalid path, which is understandable although it was employed only as "\".
'This version has placed the directory in the root folder via the rootpath statement.A modest success is demonstrated when the directory content
'of "PERMDB.OUT" and the path to the directory are displayed.
Public Class _Default
    Inherits Page
    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Dim s As String, i As Integer, getprop As String, apath, a1, a2 As String
        Dim rootpath = Server.MapPath("~") 'this is the applicaiton's root path
        ChDir(rootpath & "\SDATA")
        s = CurDir()
        TextBox2.Text = s
        s = Dir("permdb.*")
        rootbox.Text = s
    End Sub

   End Class

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eps123

Answer 3

I think you should close the comments with another ' so the code will not be all green.

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Greetings

Answer 4

Good for you

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