I followed the instructions on how to return a string based on a boolean item in a grid and instead of returning yes or no I returned a path to a yes and no icon stored in my main images folder.

My question is how come when I supplied "~/Images/yes-icon.jpg" as a path it didn't work but when I erased the tilda it did work?

Will omitting the tilda cause any problems or will it work just as well as "~/"?


Thanks.

Without the ~ your image will always be looked for in the root of the server. With that character, the path will be expanded to the current application which may or may not be the root of the server (it could be an additional application folder such as /myApp).

Why it didn't work is hard to say without seeing the relevant code. Maybe the image you assigned it to was a plain img element and not a server control?

Imar

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Yes, it was just a plain img. What control should I use instead, just change it to an asp image?

And would it be possible to put this function along with the one that returns yes or no label in a static class in my app_code folder so I can call it on any grid on any page?

Thanks for the quick reply.

You can use an asp:Image or an img with a runat="server" attribute. Check out page 240 and further and the exercice + How It Works section for a detailed explanation.

And yes, you could move this code to App_Data in a static class and then use it elsewhere.

Cheers,

Imar

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