Visual Studio 2005 and HTML

joe_pool_is · May 19, 2008

In my ASP.NET projects, I use relative paths.

Code:

<a href="../images/blue.gif" alt="">Example</a>

This works for me because I code and test my websites locally, then once they are ready to implement, I FTP them over to our remote server.

Visual Studio hates this, though! It refuses to compile my web application because anything with "../" gets lost. It wants the fully qualified name:

"C:\Documents and Settings\jpool\My Documents\Web Projects\Website500\images\blue.gif"

That may work fine for testing my application at my desk, but whenever I FTP it to the server, that obviously wont work.

Is there a way I can slap Visual Studio so that it will understand the basics that were derived years ago? Maybe there is a setting somewhere burried under the Options menu?

PlausiblyDamp · May 19, 2008

Is images off the root folder? If so you should be able to use a path of "~/images/blue.gif" as an example.

Nate Bross · May 19, 2008

PD is right that should work.

The tilda ("~") character should translate into the proper path at runtime; however for this to happen the path must be contained in a control with a

Code:

runat="server"

In your case the main <form> tag of the page should suffice. However, if you were using

Code:

<link href="~/Site.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"></link>

youd need to put that inside of a tag with runat="server"

Code:

<head runat="server" id="head1">
    <link href="~/Site.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"></link>
</head>

joe_pool_is · May 19, 2008

Thanks! That does a good job.

PD raises another question: Does the tilde (~) map to the root directory or simply to one directory up?

MrPaul · May 19, 2008

The root directory

joe_pool_is said:
PD raises another question: Does the tilde (~) map to the root directory or simply to one directory up?

The root directory of the project.

Good luck

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