HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Web.Hosting

Assembly:

System.Web.dll

Gets the physical path on disk to the application's directory.

public:
 static property System::String ^ ApplicationPhysicalPath { System::String ^ get(); };

public static string ApplicationPhysicalPath { get; }

static member ApplicationPhysicalPath : string

Public Shared ReadOnly Property ApplicationPhysicalPath As String

Property Value

String

The physical path on disk to the application's directory.

Examples

The following code example uses the ApplicationPhysicalPath property to construct a path to a data file in the application's App_Data directory. For the full code required to run the example, see the Example section of the VirtualPathProvider class overview topic.

// Set the datafile path relative to the application's path.
dataFile = HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath + "App_Data\\XMLData.xml";

' Set the datafile path relative to the application's path.
dataFile = HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath & _
  "App_Data\XMLData.xml"