How to create directory to the target in C during installation after publish

Question

Example code to publish bellow;

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace _WMI_
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private readonly string TargetPath = @"C:\VLc\";

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(@"c:\")
            {
                NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.Attributes
         | NotifyFilters.CreationTime
         | NotifyFilters.DirectoryName
         | NotifyFilters.FileName
         | NotifyFilters.LastAccess
         | NotifyFilters.LastWrite
         | NotifyFilters.Security
         | NotifyFilters.Size
            };

            watcher.Changed += OnChanged;
            watcher.Deleted += OnDeleted;
            watcher.Created += OnCreated;
            watcher.Renamed += OnRenamed;
            watcher.Error += OnError;
            watcher.Filter = "*.*";
            watcher.IncludeSubdirectories = true;
            watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
            this.Opacity = 0;
            this.ShowInTaskbar = false;

        }
        private static void OnChanged(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.ChangeType != WatcherChangeTypes.Changed)
            {
                return;
            }
            Console.WriteLine($"Changed: {e.FullPath}");
        }
        private static void OnDeleted(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e) => Console.WriteLine($"Deleted: {e.FullPath}");

        private void OnCreated(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                FileInfo fileInfo = new FileInfo(e.FullPath);
                var TargetFile = Path.Combine(TargetPath, fileInfo.Name);

                File.Copy(e.FullPath, TargetFile, true);
                listBox1.Invoke((Action)(() => listBox1.Items.Add(e.FullPath + TargetFile)));
            }

            catch (Exception exception)
            {
                Debug.WriteLine(exception.Message);
            }
        }
        private void OnRenamed(object sender, RenamedEventArgs e)
        {

        }
        private static void OnError(object sender, ErrorEventArgs e) => DisplayException(e.GetException());
        /// <summary>
        /// For debug purposes
        /// For a production environment write to a log file
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="ex"></param>
        private static void DisplayException(Exception ex)
        {
            if (ex != null)
            {
                Debug.WriteLine($"Message: {ex.Message}");
                Debug.WriteLine("Stacktrace:");
                Debug.WriteLine(ex.StackTrace);
                Debug.WriteLine("");

                DisplayException(ex.InnerException);
            }
        }

    }

}

Answer 1

Hi, @YUSOF

Please run you Visual Studio as Admin.
Based on your description, I created .NET Framework Winform and was able to set C:\

Best regards,

Minxin Yu

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