How to give Read/Write permissions to a Folder during installation using .NET

Question

I have a Setup project that I have build using Visual Studio 2010.

The installer works fine in terms of installing the application and all its dependencies into thei

Answer 1

I put the folders I want to copy in a folder in the Application Folder section of the Setup Wizard which is in the C:\Program Files (x86) directory.

Then when the program runs it checks if the folders needed are in the right place, and if not copies them to the correct directory.

So the code would be:

If Not My.Computer.FileSystem.DirectoryExists("directory") And My.Computer.FileSystem.DirectoryExists("directory") Then
    My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory("C:\Program Files (x86)\APPFOLDER", "C:\ProgramData\APPFOLDER")
Else
End If

Hope this helps.