[SOLVED] Environment Variable for AppData\Local / Access Downloaded custom assemblies

Environment Variable for AppData\Local / Access Downloaded custom assemblies

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).

Solution

You can use %LocalAppData%. It expands to:

%SystemDrive%\%Username%\LoggedInUser\AppData\Local

Example: %LocalAppData%\BuildAgent.

Note that %AppData% will expand to:

%SystemDrive%\%Username%\LoggedInUser\AppData\Roaming