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Environment::SystemDirectory Property

.NET Framework (current version)
 

Gets the fully qualified path of the system directory.

Namespace:   System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

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public:
property String^ SystemDirectory {
	static String^ get();
}

Property Value

Type: System::String^

A string containing a directory path.

An example of the value returned is the string "C:\WinNT\System32".

The following example displays the system directory of the computer that runs the code example. (The system directory is omitted from the example output for security reasons.)

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// Sample for the Environment::SystemDirectory property
using namespace System;
int main()
{
   Console::WriteLine();

   //  <-- Keep this information secure! -->
   Console::WriteLine( "SystemDirectory: {0}", Environment::SystemDirectory );
}

/*
This example produces the following results:

SystemDirectory: C:\WINNT\System32
*/

FileIOPermission

for access to the information in the path itself. Associated enumeration: FileIOPermissionAccess::PathDiscovery

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
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