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Asked: 2026-06-09T03:43:04+00:00

I have a datagrid that needs one of the fields to hyperlink to a

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I have a datagrid that needs one of the fields to hyperlink to a document housed on another server. The path is in this format: \\server\location\file.doc, but when I click on the cell in the data grid it becomes: http://myASPServer/Subfolder/server/location.file.doc. Is there any way that I can force this to go to the correct location? I know that you can prevent this for external websites by adding ftp:// or http://, but this does not seem to work for opening up this server location. Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I believe your answer can be found here on the asp.net forums http://forums.asp.net/t/1140909.aspx/1 – accepted answer from there below for your convenience.

    <Columns>
<asp:TemplateField>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:HyperLink Text="TextField" id="myHL" runat="server"
 NavigateUrl='<%# "file:///" + DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Path").ToString() %>'></asp:HyperLink>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>

    I believe you need to prefix your links with file:/// for it would be file:///\\server\location\file.doc

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