Question

why the below line has error in global.asax :

string RelativeFilePath = "~/" + (AbsoluteFilePath.Replace(Request.ServerVariables["APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH"], String.Empty)).Replace("\\", "/");  

Error :

Request is not available in this context

what is the replacement?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you are hosting your application in IIS7 integrated pipeline HttpContext objects are not available in Application_Start. For your scenario you could do this instead:

string relativeFilePath = "~/" + AbsoluteFilePath
    .Replace(HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath, String.Empty)
    .Replace("\\", "/");