Write-access for c# app in it's own exe dir in Windows 7

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Published on 2010-04-11T10:26:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 10:33 UTC
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I know that user accounts in Windows 7 are limited by default, so a program cannot just write anywhere on the system (as it was possible in Win XP).

But I thought that it would be possible that e.g. a c# app is allowed to write inside it's own exe-directory or it's subfolders at least (not everything is 'user settings' or should be written to "MyDocuments"...).

So currently my c# app throws an UnauthorizedAccessException when trying to write inside the exe dir.

Is there anything you can do in c# code to allow writing inside the exe dir?

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