HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath Property (System.Web.Hosting)

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HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath Property

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

Namespace: System.Web.Hosting
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic

Public Shared ReadOnly Property ApplicationPhysicalPath As String
	Get

public static string ApplicationPhysicalPath { get; }

Visual C++

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

static member ApplicationPhysicalPath : string

Property Value

Type: System.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.

Visual Basic


' 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";

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Platforms

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.

Reference

HostingEnvironment Class

System.Web.Hosting Namespace

Community Content

Jake P.

Usage example best practices

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