Environment Variable for AppData\Local / Access Downloaded custom assemblies

Question

I am trying to setup my TFS2010 Build and I want to access the files that are downloaded via the "Version control path to custom assemblies".

From what I can tell those files are downloaded to:

C:\User\<Build User>\AppData\Local\BuildAgent\<Built Agent Number>

I can directly access that folder via the above path, but it would be nice if there was an environment variable (or something I can use in the build) to access that folder indirectly.

Or... Is there a better way to get at these files? (I am putting a version file in there to be downloaded every time the build is run).

Hermon

Answer 1

You can use %LOCALAPPDATA% environment variable. It expands to

RootDrive:\User\LoggedInUser\AppData\Local

Example: %LOCALAPPDATA%\BuildAgent

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Note that %APPDATA% will expand to

RootDrive:\User\LoggedInUser\AppData\Roaming

Bahamas

Deriving from %appdata% environment variable, I tried to guess it as %appdatalocal% assuming local is a sub-directory inside appdata directory. I gave up thinking such an environment variable might not exist. Thanks for the answer. +1 – Ori

For WINDOWS 10: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/… – Histamine

Where is it documented? The link above refer to some variables like CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA, but where is LOCALAPPDATA listed? – Natalee