Returns

A string containing the full directory name of a temporary directory.

The information returned by this method is implementation-specific. Platforms that do not support this feature return string.Empty.

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Permissions

Type	Reason
System.Security.Permissions.EnvironmentPermission [Edit]	Requires unrestricted access to environment variables. See System.Security.Permissions.PermissionState.Unrestricted.

Exceptions

Type	Reason
System.Security.SecurityException	The caller does not have the required permission. [Edit]

Remarks

On platforms that provide a mechanism for users to discover this information, (for example by checking an environment variable), implementations of the CLI return the same information as the implementation-specific mechanism. [Edit]

Requirements

Namespace: System.IO
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0