I have been working with VS2005 for about 8 months now and I have always wondered why how come sometimes paths require a ~ in front of them and sometimes they don't.  What is the best practice when using paths so to save me work in having to go back and fix paths when they are broken.  From what I have read on it the .net engine requires a tilde and htm does not am I on the right path here or can some explain it to me in a more descriptive way?

 BC

MS .net best coding practices recommend to use path starting from tilde (~). This way every page automatically track down from its base directory. This is something compiled at server side. So HTML doesn't understand. so base line. when you are doing server side development, feel free to use tilde (~) based path.

Thank you,
 

Hi,

In my daily practice i found it best to use TemplateSourceDirectory to get the path of current directory

in C#

this.Templatesourcedirectory 

in vb

me.TemplateSourceDirectory

then you can append the name of sub directoryes like , /images etc,

this is really best to give path to images, and use wherever you want

Muhammad Rizwan Javed

Software Engineer, Mechtechnologies, Lahore, Pakistan

Hi,

The TemplateSourceDirectory property specifies the path to the page or user control that contains the current control. For example, if the Web page resides at http://www.contoso.com/application/subdirectory, the TemplateSourceDirectory property returns "application/subdirectory".

To return the application-relative virtual path ("~/subdirectory"), use the AppRelativeTemplateSourceDirectory property.

Just remember that tilde(~) is a server side symble and don't use it at the client side.

some guy has summarized different "paths" used in asp.net. you can refer to at: http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/269.aspx

Hope my suggestion helps :)