Question

I’m following a blog tutorial to implement the jQuery-plugin called FullCalendar, into an ASP.NET-project.

In that tutorial, they claim the following:

Url.Content method creates correct URL-s and it is way better than MS strategy (href like ….\Content\Site.css).

But they don’t even attempt to explain how they’ve come to that conclusion.

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So what’s the difference between this:

<script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

and this:

<script src="<%= Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js") %>" type="text/javascript"></script>

Answer 1

"~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js"

That above will not resolve to a url since ~/ doesn’t mean anything to the browser

"<%=Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js") %>"

Url.Content will resolve the path of the url specified after ~/ in your application

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UrlHelper.Content Method

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.urlhelper.content(v=vs.108).aspx

Converts a virtual (relative) path to an application absolute path.