Visual Basic .NET Access to the path 'C:\' is denied

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Basic .NET to build the application (with Windows 7)

I currently build the install package and i install to another pc to test program.

When I was creating txt file by my app, i was getting "Access to the path 'C:\' is denied" error

I know that I was using sub account to run my application.

If I run as administrator, it is was working fine. However, the program should be able to run application without using administrator account .

These are what I tried to solve this problem so far.

First, I change the location to write file in "Program file folder" such as "C:\Program file\My App"

However, it didn't work

Second, I was trying to change

 <requestedExecutionLevel  level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" />

to

 <requestedExecutionLevel  level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />

at app.config

However, After I replaced to "requireAdministrator" , I am getting compiling error

ClickOnce does not support the request execution level 'requireAdministrator'.  WindowsApplication2

Third, I went to Computer->manager->service-> and Enable Application experience.

However, it does not work.

I am not really sure what to do for this problem.

Does anybody know any solution ?

thanks

Solution

Dim UserAccount As String = "<user here>" 'Specify the user here
Dim FolderInfo As IO.DirectoryInfo = New IO.DirectoryInfo("path")
Dim FolderAcl As New DirectorySecurity
FolderAcl.AddAccessRule(New FileSystemAccessRule(UserAccount, FileSystemRights.Modify, InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit Or InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit, PropagationFlags.None, AccessControlType.Allow))
FolderAcl.SetAccessRuleProtection(False, False)
FolderInfo.SetAccessControl(FolderAcl)

Note you have to add: Imports.System.Security.AccessControl

By the way I got it from here: Give folder full access when created so credit goes to that person. (Jacques Bronkhorst) Hope this solves the issue :)