ASP.NET Schedule deletion of temporary files

Question

Question: I have an ASP.NET application which creates temporary PDF files (for the user to download). Now, many users over many days can create many PDFs, which take much di

Answer 1

Try using Path.GetTempPath(). It will give you a path to a windows temp folder. Then it will be up to windows to clean up :)

You can read more about the method here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.gettemppath.aspx