PhysicalApplicationPath Property
.NET Framework Class Library
HttpRequest..::.PhysicalApplicationPath Property

Gets the physical file system path of the currently executing server application's root directory.

Namespace:  System.Web
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public ReadOnly Property PhysicalApplicationPath As String
Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim instance As HttpRequest
Dim value As String

value = instance.PhysicalApplicationPath
C#
public string PhysicalApplicationPath { get; }
Visual C++
public:
property String^ PhysicalApplicationPath {
    String^ get ();
}
JScript
public function get PhysicalApplicationPath () : String

Property Value

Type: System..::.String
The file system path of the current application's root directory.

The following code example uses the HtmlEncode method to HTML-encode the value of the PhysicalApplicationPath property and the WriteLine method to write the encoded value to the file. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the HttpRequest class.

Visual Basic
' Write request information to the file with HTML encoding.
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.PhysicalApplicationPath))
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.PhysicalPath))
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.RawUrl))
C#
// Write request information to the file with HTML encoding.
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.PhysicalApplicationPath));
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.PhysicalPath));
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.RawUrl));

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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