How to find path

[Shimon Sim]

I have web project that includes few sits that must share some pictures. The
project has following structure

Root - just a folder with solution files - this is on IIS regular folder
Site 1 - web application 1 (has asp.net project here) - site saves and
views the pictures
Site 2 - web application 2 (has asp.net project here) - just views the
pictures
SharedPicture - folder with shared pictures

It will be deployed in the same manner just root will be the root of the web
site.

The problem I have is to get this Shared Pictures folder that is outside of
the applications.
Server.MapPath("~") - returns root of the application (this could be done
with few other ways). I can get physical path by using Directory.GetParent.
It should be good enough for saving pictures but in order to read them I
need to get virtual path and that I have issue with - can't map system
directory to virtual path.

I could create entry in config file and type the directory name but I would
prefer to have it defined as "folder on the same level as application roots"
and find it dynamically.
I hope it is clear.
Thanks,
Shimon

[Kevin Spencer]

I think your best bet in terms of performance would be to put the path into
the web.config file. Anything above Application Root would require
inter-process communications.

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Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Sometimes you eat the elephant.
Sometimes the elephant eats you.

"Shimon Sim" <sh**********@community.nospam> wrote in message
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I have web project that includes few sits that must share some pictures.
The project has following structure

Root - just a folder with solution files - this is on IIS regular folder
Site 1 - web application 1 (has asp.net project here) - site saves and
views the pictures
Site 2 - web application 2 (has asp.net project here) - just views the
pictures
SharedPicture - folder with shared pictures

It will be deployed in the same manner just root will be the root of the
web site.

The problem I have is to get this Shared Pictures folder that is outside
of the applications.
Server.MapPath("~") - returns root of the application (this could be done
with few other ways). I can get physical path by using
Directory.GetParent.
It should be good enough for saving pictures but in order to read them I
need to get virtual path and that I have issue with - can't map system
directory to virtual path.

I could create entry in config file and type the directory name but I
would prefer to have it defined as "folder on the same level as
application roots" and find it dynamically.
I hope it is clear.
Thanks,
Shimon

[Bruce Barker]

there are two common approachs

1) create a standard root dir for shared stuff

http://mysite.com/shared/pictures -> e:\shared\pictures
so the pictures can be referenecd as <img
src="/shared/pictures/mypicture.gif">

2) in each website map a virdir to the same shared dir

http://mysite.com/website1/pictures -> e:\shared\pictures
http://mysite.com/website2/pictures -> e:\shared\pictures

so the pictures can be referenecd as <img src="~/pictures/mypicture.gif">

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
"Shimon Sim" <sh**********@community.nospam> wrote in message
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I have web project that includes few sits that must share some pictures.
The project has following structure

Root - just a folder with solution files - this is on IIS regular folder
Site 1 - web application 1 (has asp.net project here) - site saves and
views the pictures
Site 2 - web application 2 (has asp.net project here) - just views the
pictures
SharedPicture - folder with shared pictures

It will be deployed in the same manner just root will be the root of the
web site.

The problem I have is to get this Shared Pictures folder that is outside
of the applications.
Server.MapPath("~") - returns root of the application (this could be done
with few other ways). I can get physical path by using
Directory.GetParent.
It should be good enough for saving pictures but in order to read them I
need to get virtual path and that I have issue with - can't map system
directory to virtual path.

I could create entry in config file and type the directory name but I
would prefer to have it defined as "folder on the same level as
application roots" and find it dynamically.
I hope it is clear.
Thanks,
Shimon