Question

I am looking to get the folder that my website is running under. I have used many different methods within HttpContext.Current.Request but none of them were returning what I was looking for. I can easily get the value using substring but it doesn’t look very clean and was wondering if there was a shorthand way of getting the folder.

For example when I use the code.

HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~")

I get C:\ClientProjects\Dev\v10.3\src\MySite

I can use:

HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~").Substring(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~").LastIndexOf("\") + 1)

But this seems really bloated way to get the folder I’m running under.

Answer 1

You will be able to get the directory name from a System.IO.DirectoryInfo object.

Dim info As New System.IO.DirectoryInfo(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~"))
Dim name As String = info.Name ' name will have the value "MySite"