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HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath Property

.NET Framework 4

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

Namespace:  System.Web.Hosting
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
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public static string ApplicationPhysicalPath { get; }

Property Value

Type: System.String
The physical path on disk to the application's directory.

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.

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

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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I would recommend that the usage example be changed to: $0$0 $0// Set the datafile path relative to the application's path.$0 $0dataFile = Path.Combine(HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath, "App_Data", "XMLData.xml");$0 $0
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