Hey all,

I'm using Visual Web Developer 2008 and I have somewhat of a problem.  As the message header stated, I can see the images just fine at design time but when I run the site (local host), the image won't show.  I have tried all the usual tricks, ~/,  ../,  MapPath and nothing will work!  I have tried setting the image url with the properties editor and it generates the ~/ code which is not working.  Does anyone have an idea of what to do? 

This path shoud work

 You can set a relative path like this: "~/images/yourimage.gif"

But can you give your folder structure of the images and where is your aspx page both the structure. so that i can say what can be done.

Thanks for the reply!

My images are stored under the App_Data folder and my aspz pages are stored in the standard directory.  As a note, I have tried using an image that's stored the same directory as the aspx page but it still doesn't work.  Do you know if there is some Visual Studio setting that needs changed?

That's because you're putting the Images in the Wrong Folder.. App_Data  is where DB, XML files are placed and not images.. so i would suggest you to create a separate Folder that will contain your images.. see below

Solution
C://Project Destination
App_code
App_data
App_themes <-- You can put the images here for you to get referenced with
Images <--or Put the images here for you to get referenced with
Defuault.aspx
Web.Config

Thanks man! You had the winning answer.  I still don't understand why Asp.Net can't map to the App_Data folder for images.  I've created a folder called: "images" and everything is smooth sailing for right now.

Thanks again,
Richard

If your Image and ASPX page are in a single directory then use

<image src="imagename.gif"/>

dont use any thing just the image name.

let me know

richerTextBox :

I still don't understand why Asp.Net can't map to the App_Data folder for images.

refer to the following link below for you to find out.

http://benfulton.net/blog/2005/11/no-images-allowed-in-appdata-folder.html