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malcolmcooper
#1 Posted : Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:47:01 AM(UTC)
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I have a VS 2008 Web application that accesses an environment variables using Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable. When I test in Visual studio it works fine. However, when I deploy and test through the Cassini web server, the environment variable is returning null. In VS I had to restart VS before it could see the new variable. I've restarted the UltiDev service, but that did not work. Should this work through the Cassini webserver? I am really hoping to not have to use IIS.

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#2 Posted : Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:16:03 AM(UTC)
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Malcolm,

Which environment variable value are you trying to read? The most likely explanation of the behavior you are observing is that applications registered with UltiDev Cassini server are loaded into Cassini service process, which runs under Local System account. Visual Studio server runs under your account, which has somewhat different set of environment variables.

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malcolmcooper
#3 Posted : Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:31:04 AM(UTC)
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I created a new system environment variable to store the path to a configuration file. I guess I assumed the local System account would have access to it. I checked and you were correct. The local system account is not able to see the environment variable, but if I update the service to login using my account it works. At least now I what the problem is.

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#4 Posted : Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:02:04 PM(UTC)
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Malcolm,

When switching Cassini service to another account please keep in mind possible implications, like other applications using Cassini may be installed and need to have Local System. If you can, please see if you can find better storage for information you are passing through environment variables. Web apps running under Local System can access any common folder on the machine, so common application data folder could be a good place to put your data for the app to read.

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