How to use Server.MapPath to get location outside website folder in ASP.NET

Question

When my ASP.NET site uses documents (e.g. XML), I normally load the document as follows:

Server.MapPath(\"~\\Documents\\MyDocument.xml\")

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Answer 1

If you want to specify the Location somewhere in harddrive , then its is not easily available on web environment. If files are smaller in size and quantity then you can keep it inside directory and point then using ~/path till directory.

But in some cases we used to do Request object. For more visit this link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5d5940ad.aspx