Reference to the site root
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Topic: Reference to the site root
Posted By: sardawg
Subject: Reference to the site root
Date Posted: 10 March 2003 at 2:10pm
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I was just beginning to get a handle on ASP and now I have to drink the .NET through a firehose. Oh well... In a piece of code just like this one (so ignore any parts not directly relevant to the question): objMyUserControl = CType(LoadControl I had to point to the root of the site. Remembering something from ASP, I inserted "../" just on front of the "UserControls/DSelectArea.ascx", making it: "../UserControls/DSelectArea.ascx" which solved the problem. In a later code example in the Wrox Press book I am using for a tutorial, they used "Request.ApplicationPath & Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar & "UserControls/DSelectArea.ascx" to also solve the problem. My question is, is there a reason like security or something why you should use all the code instead of 3 characters? And/or, couldn't you put a variable in global.asax named "root" and set it equal to "Request.ApplicationPath & Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar &" so when you needed a reference you could use "root/UserControls/DSelectArea.ascx" to get there? ------------- V1...Vr...V2 |
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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 11 March 2003 at 7:07am
maybe since it was a book to teach, they are trying to expose as much as the stuff available
well, security isn't an issue, but what if you moved this file one more folder deeper? yup, your code with "../" (which says: go up one folder, then into the UserControls directory) would no longer function, since now you'd have to go up two levels (ie: "../../")
you could do that (of course your syntax would have to be: root & "UserControls/De....blahb lah"), but of course you could just say: objMyUserControl = CType(LoadControl ("/UserControls/SelectArea.ascx"), SelectArea) which'll know where to go no matter where you are in the application ------------- Contribute to the working anarchy we fondly call the Internet |
sardawg wrote: