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• Filipe

  Posted on Jan 20, 2012 (permalink)

  Hi,
  
  I was able get the FileExplorer to show files in a relative path within my project.
  I'm now trying to show files in a physical location in my machine 'C:/Mediacontent/1' but I keep getting this error :
  
  

  'C:/MediaContent/1' is a physical path, but a virtual path was expected.
  
  

  I based my code in this example and I'm using a plain FileSystemContentProvider as the content provider type.
  Can you help please?
  

  
  
  
  

  
  

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• Dobromir Dobromir

  Posted on Jan 24, 2012 (permalink)

  Hi,
  
  This error can be thrown if the physical path is used as a parameter to MapPath() method. However, in the source code of the content provider from the linked KB article, MapPath() is used only to locate the mapping file.
  string physicalPathToConfigFile = Context.Server.MapPath(this.pathToConfigFile);
  Where this.pathToConfigFile is a private filed in the class with the virtual path as value
  private string pathToConfigFile = "~/App_Code/MappingFile.mapping"
  
  Have you modified the value of pathToConfigFile? If so, please make sure that it is virtual path.
  
  If this is not the case, could you please provide the exact configuration of RadFileExplorer, the MappingFile and the complete error's stack trace.
  
  Kind regards,
  Dobromir
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