Can anyone explain the legality and meaning of a file path like "~/Image1.jif"
Can't find a definition of it anywhere.

Hi there,

The tilde (~) resolves to the application's root. This can be something like / (when accessing the site at www.domainname.com for example), or something like /ApplicationName/ (when accessing the site as www.domainname.com/ApplicationName and where ApplicationName is marked as an application in IIS).

It only works on server side controls / code, so depending on where you use the path you provided it may or may no work. For more info:

https://www.google.com/?q=asp.net+tilde+in+url

Cheers,

Imar

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Thank you Imar. I found the answer for myself searching discussions of virtual and physical paths on MSDN. I even think I knew that once, but only intuitively. It's great that author like yourself participates in P2P. Look forward to reading your posts.