Environment.SystemDirectory Property

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: System

Assemblies:: netstandard.dll, System.Runtime.dll

Assembly:: System.Runtime.Extensions.dll

Assembly:: mscorlib.dll

Assembly:: netstandard.dll

Source:: Environment.UnixOrBrowser.cs

Source:: Environment.UnixOrBrowser.cs

Source:: Environment.UnixOrBrowser.cs

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Gets the fully qualified path of the system directory.

public:
 static property System::String ^ SystemDirectory { System::String ^ get(); };

public static string SystemDirectory { get; }

static member SystemDirectory : string

Public Shared ReadOnly Property SystemDirectory As String

Property Value

String

A string containing a directory path.

Examples

The following example displays the system directory of the computer that runs the code example. (The system directory is omitted from the example output for security reasons.)

// Sample for the Environment::SystemDirectory property
using namespace System;
int main()
{
   Console::WriteLine();
   
   //  <-- Keep this information secure! -->
   Console::WriteLine( "SystemDirectory: {0}", Environment::SystemDirectory );
}

/*
This example produces the following results:

SystemDirectory: C:\WINNT\System32
*/

// Sample for the Environment.SystemDirectory property
using System;

class Sample
{
    public static void Main()
    {
    Console.WriteLine();
//  <-- Keep this information secure! -->
    Console.WriteLine("SystemDirectory: {0}", Environment.SystemDirectory);
    }
}
/*
This example produces the following results:

SystemDirectory: C:\WINNT\System32
*/

// Sample for the Environment.SystemDirectory property
open System

//  <-- Keep this information secure! -->
printfn $"\nSystemDirectory: {Environment.SystemDirectory}"

// This example produces the following results:
//     SystemDirectory: C:\WINNT\System32

' Sample for the Environment.SystemDirectory property
Class Sample
   Public Shared Sub Main()
      Console.WriteLine()
      '  <-- Keep this information secure! -->
      Console.WriteLine("SystemDirectory: {0}", Environment.SystemDirectory)
   End Sub
End Class
'
'This example produces the following results:
'
'SystemDirectory: C:\WINNT\System32
'

Remarks

An example of the value returned is the string "C:\WINDOWS\System32".

Applies to

Product	Versions
.NET	Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
.NET Framework	1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard	2.0, 2.1

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