Question

Say I have a project that I am deploying at

http://www.foo.com/path1/default.aspx

and

http://www.foo.com/path2/default.aspx

What would be the most reliable way to know if I was in the folder “path1”, or “path2”? Can I grab that directly, or do I need to split() somehow on the Request.Url.AbsolutePath, or… ?

I just want to change colors, etc. based on which folder the user is in.

Thanks for any assistance!

Answer 1

If you want to code that logic directly into the page, then yeah, I’d go with split() on Request.Url.AbsolutePath.

That said, I’d consider storing this kind of setting in the AppSettings section of web.config. That way if you decide to change the color in path2, you just need to edit the web.config for path2. If you need to add a new path, just deploy there and edit the web.config as appropriate.