Question

Is there a ‘correct’ way to get the proper web address for a file under an ASP.Net application? For example, I have content in ‘/Content/Images/Gallery/2010-01-17/small/’, and I would like to iterate through all of those files, and output to the browser a link.

Now, I can do it manually by working out the path from the files FullName or I can do it from knowing the current directory, but is there a proper ASP.Net way to do it?

As you can probably tell, I’d rather use the provided method if it exists 🙂

Regards

Moo

Answer 1

You can use the method ResolveUrl() for that. If your content directory is located directly under you web app’s root directory, then this should work:

// "~" results in an URL to your web app's root directory
string imageBaseUrl = this.ResolveUrl("~/content/gallery/2010-01-17/small");

Then you can append the names of the images to that base URL.