physical path vs virtual path

[doug]

I'm trying to display images from another server path using ImageGallery example below: (actually code with read from database loop)  anyway, if I put the images in the wwwroot folder path it works "~\images\" but when I point to a physical path it doesn't.

Protected Sub RadImageGallery1_NeedDataSource(sender As Object, e As Telerik.Web.UI.ImageGalleryNeedDataSourceEventArgs) Handles RadImageGallery1.NeedDataSource
TryCast(sender, RadImageGallery).DataSource = GetImageGalleryData()
End Sub

Private Function GetImageGalleryData() As DataTable
Dim table As New DataTable()
table.Columns.Add("Title", GetType(String))
table.Columns.Add("Description", GetType(String))
table.Columns.Add("ImageData", GetType(String))

table.Rows.Add("Image 1", "Description", "c:\images\Bale-0301201638060.jpg")
table.Rows.Add("Image 2", "Description", "c:\images\Bale-0301201638060.jpg")

Return table
End Function

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hi Doug,

The physical path is related to the local machine of the user, so I am not sure why you would need such functionality in the first place.

If your images are outside your root directory, you need to set the full URL to the images (like http://myimageserver/image1.jpg for example).

As for the physical path, you could also take a look at the following forum post:

• Why can't I do <img src=“C:/localfile.jpg”>?

Hope this helps.


Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
Telerik