Getting the current folder path when trying to get ProgramFilesX86 on server 2003

Question

When I'm trying to call this method from windows server 2003 SP2 Enterprise Edition KN x86:

Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFilesX86)

I am getting the current directory rather than the program files directory, for example, my application is installed in this location: C:\Program Files\Company\ApplocationName\SomeApp.exe

When calling:

string x = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFilesX86);

x value will be: C:\Program Files\Company\ApplocationName

Is it a known issue? is there any ideas about this?

Answer 1

Copied from MSDN

"On an x86 system, passing the ProgramFilesX86 member to the Environment.GetFolderPath method returns String.Empty; use the ProgramFiles member instead. You can determine whether Windows is a 32-bit operating system by calling the Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem property."

So you should use

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