Is There A System Defined Environment Variable For Documents Directory?

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For powershell the following works:

[environment]::getfolderpath("mydocuments")

and avoiding magic strings

[Environment]::GetFolderPath([Environment+SpecialFolder]::MyDocuments)

For .NET the following holds true (ie not applicable in all windows applications):

As one answer points out, there is no Environment Variable pointing to My Documents but there is Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments) (C#) for .NET.

I’m adding this answer since this question comes up when googling for C#, environment variables and my documents and Justin’s answer does not contain the line of code 🙂

Using the above mentioned line of code is the preferred way of accessing my documents in .NET 🙂

Copy paste this row for C# usage:

var directoryNameOfMyDocuments = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);

Note that C# needs a capital D in MyDocuments.

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