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Nov 29th, 2006

Assigning Drive Letter in VB6

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Is there a method that VB uses to get the drive letter of the directory where the program files reside witout specifying it explicitly? :rolleyes:

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Nov 29th, 2006

Re: Assigning Drive Letter in VB6

If I understand correctly. You can use the stored system variables:

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Debug.Print Environ("PROGRAMFILES")
 
'OR if you want just the drive letter you can also use
 
Debug.Print Environ("HOMEDRIVE")
 
'OR
 
Debug.Print Environ("SYSTEMDRIVE")
Debug.Print Environ("PROGRAMFILES")

'OR if you want just the drive letter you can also use

Debug.Print Environ("HOMEDRIVE")

'OR

Debug.Print Environ("SYSTEMDRIVE")

Find a large list of these variables here and what they are all about: http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/environment.htm

Last edited by Sentax; Nov 29th, 2006 at 6:44 pm. Reason: Added more information.

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Re: Assigning Drive Letter in VB6

The path where the project file resides can be gotten (as a string) using App.Path

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Re: Assigning Drive Letter in VB6

Hi,

Use

MsgBox "My program Is In drive : " & Left(App.Path,1)

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