Accessing files in windows Vista.

Hi All,

i am developing an application which reads and writes some files in the Application's start up path. Which means, it will read/write files from program files location eventually.

Now my application creates few files in the application's startup location and reads it when needed.

My application runs fine from program files folder location. I am able to create a file, but i cannot locate it manually.
I know this happens because of the File System Virtualization feature in Windows Vista.
If I look at the path I can see that this has been created in the user profile with the same path under the VirtualStore directory.

So here is the question i want to ask you people, which is the best location to create and access files relevant to the application. These files are temporary and again created by the application. Is it safe to access files created in the VirtualStore directory of the logged in user's profile ?

I hope everyone can understand what i am upto.. :)

Thanks
MMH

Application Data or maybe even the temp folder.

Thanks for your reply. I think i will go for Application Data folder...