14 hive path

Suthish Nair

How to get 14 Hive path programmatically in Sharepoint.

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Satish Bhat15y ago
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You can access the physical path using SPUtility - the web path by looking at the SPWeb object.

Using SPUtility to get the SetupPath of Sharepoint like so:

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities;
string spSetupPath = SPUtility.GetGenericSetupPath(string.Empty);
// returns "C:\Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14

The argument for GetGenericSetupPath method can be any relative path beneath the root. For example.
string featurePath = SPUtility.GetGenericSetupPath("template\\features");

An empty string argument returns the root path.

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Satish Bhat15y ago
Hi Suthish,

SPUtility.GetGenericSetupPath was also present in the earlier version of the SharePoint. It returns 12-Hive path in that case. I don't think it is new in .NET 4.0. It is in the namespace Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities. So must be sharepoint method not the .NET framework method.

Even I started learning SharePoint recently. So I am not an expert in this field. If I get more information, I will update this thread.
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Suthish Nair15y ago
Anyway its not working for me.. GetGenericSetupPath is in .Net Framework 4. I have 3.5, am accepting the thread as answer.
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