Environment Considerations

It is good practice to avoid hard-coding references to specific file locations in any application, but international applications have an additional consideration: The names of special folders are localized in some language versions of Windows. So, if you make a direct reference to the program files folder using "\Program Files", the folder you actually find (if it exists) may or may not be the program files folder you are expecting to find. In the German version of Windows, for example, the program files folder is "\Programme". You can avoid hard-coding references to specific file locations using the Environment.GetFolderPath method. Replace code like this:

 string programFilesFolder = @"\Program Files"; 

with code like this:

 string programFilesFolder =     Environment.GetFolderPath(     Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles);