Question

I have some service which does some file processing. It may need to map to arbitrary paths, and I’m tried to keep it as decoupled from a controller as possible. Normally, I could just do something like:

var path = Server.MapPath("~/Content/Images/");
var imageFile = Path.Combine(path, filename);

But if I’m trying to do this outside of a controller, I don’t have access to Server. Is there any simple and clean way I could map to paths without relying on Server?

Answer 1

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.DynamicDirectory can give you the directory the application domain is executed from, which is independent of any controllers and can be used through your whole application.