Question

If I have a url like "/something/something/" and my site is http://mysite.com and I want to link to that something url, is there a method like Url.Content(); which will discover the virtual directory of the site in IIS and map appropriately to a url path?

I tried Url.GenerateContentUrl(), Url.Action(), Url.Content(), Url.RouteUrl()

Answer 1

is there a method like Url.Content();

Why like when there is Url.Content?

var url = Url.Content("~/something/something");

which will take care of the virtual directory name and if your side is deployed at the root http://example.com it will return /something/something and if you have a virtual directory http://example.com/applicationname it will return /applicationname/something/something.

So everytime you need to link a static resource you should always use Url.Content. For example:

<img src="<%= Url.Content("~/images/foo.png") %>" alt="" />

will always correctly resolve the image url no matter where your site is deployed to.