Is there any easy (built in) way in an asp.net mvc view to get the absolute path of a file in the content folder?
At the moment I'm using
@Url.Content("~/Content/images/logo.png") But the path returned isn't absolute.
I know it is possible to build its own helper for such cases but I'd like to know if there's any easier way...
This works for me:
A helper:
using System; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; public static class UrlExtensions { public static string Content(this UrlHelper urlHelper, string contentPath, bool toAbsolute = false) { var path = urlHelper.Content(contentPath); var url = new Uri(HttpContext.Current.Request.Url, path); return toAbsolute ? url.AbsoluteUri : path; } } Usage in cshtml:
@Url.Content("~/Scripts/flot/jquery.flot.menuBar.js", true) // example output: // http://example.com/directory/Scripts/flot/jquery.flot.menuBar.js 
HttpContext.Current does not exist in Core. Use urlHelper.RequestContext.HttpContext
this IUrlHelper urlHelper)This will generate an absolute url to an image (or file)
Request.Url.Scheme + "://" + Request.Url.Authority + Url.Content("~/Content/images/logo.png") This works in Asp.net Core
Context.Request.Scheme + "://" + Context.Request.Host + Url.Content("~/images/logo.png") 
Url.Content does return the absolute path. What you want is the domain (and port). You can get the current domain by using:
Request.Url.Authority Then combine this string with the absolute path string of your image. It will return the domain name and if you are on a different port will also include the port number.
new Uri(Request.Url, Url.Content("~/Content/images/logo.png")) this calls the .ToString() of Uri. You can also put Uri in a variable and call .AbsoluteUri.
HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Content/images/logo.png"); 
Url.Content("~/...")does return the absolute path.