Tilde Slash Paths Not Working in MVC 4

Question

As I understand it, a plain ol\' \"~/foo\" path is supposed to work like @Url.Content(\"~/\") in MVC 4. However, I\'m trying to do this and getting many broken paths -- the

Answer 1

I had this problem when I cut and paste some example code into a view. Turned out I had the wrong type of tilde!

@{
Layout = "∼/Views/_BasicLayout.cshtml";
}

vs

@{
Layout = "~/Views/_BasicLayout.cshtml";
}

Subtly different - sod to find