Question

I have a populated table from a database in my VB ASP.NET application, like so:

<dl class="row">
    <dd style="width:20%; background:none;">
        <%# Eval("name")%>
    </dd>
    <dd style="width:20%;">
        <%# Eval("description")%>
    </dd>
    <dd style="width:30%;">
        <a href="<%# Eval("templateLink")%>"><%# Eval("templateId")%></a>
    </dd>
</dl>

Now, I have saved link to the template in templateLink and I’m using Guid as it’s name, namely templateId.
Now, when I click that link I want to be able to save the file, but now it does not do that. I can’t even access the file on server (on dev environment I can access but still can’t download).

This is the path I’m using.

<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="UploadLocation" value="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyProject\Intranet\Resources\"/>
    </appSettings>
<configuration>

And this is the upload code:

Dim TempEx As String = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(fuTemp.FileName)
Dim TempPath As String = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("UploadLocation")
Dim TempName As String = report.TempID.ToString + TempEx

fuTemp.PostedFile.SaveAs(TempPath + TempName)

report.TemplateLink = TempPath + TempName

As you can see, I’m saving the path to TemplateLink which I’m using later to create the a href for the table. I tried using several solutions I’ve found around the web but couldn’t make much use of it.

If possible please clarify this problem to me 🙁

Thank you.

Answer 1

You’ll want to store UploadLocation as a relative path:

<add key="UploadLocation" value="/Intranet/Resources/"/>

In your upload code, use Server.MapPath(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("UploadLocation") to get the filesystem path.

Then binding TempPath + TempName should give you a proper HTTP link rather than a filesystem path.