Re: Getting a control's filename and location

Dim actualServerPath As String = myControl.MapPath(myControl.Request.Path)

Something like this could be?


On 6/13/05, Ayyappan Nair <agnair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "this.GetType().Name" would give you the name of the ascx file with the "."
> replaced "_". If the source ascx is MyControl.ascx then "this.GetType
> ().Name" would give you "MyControl_ascx". I am not sure if you can find the
> actual source path because of shadow copying.
> 
> Ayyappan Nair
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:41:19 -0400, Brian Vallelunga <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to figure out how to get a user control's filename from
> >within the user control itself. The best I could do was:
> >
> >this.GetType().Assembly.Location
> >
> >The above only give the location of the currently loaded dll file that's
> >in a test directory. I want the original path/name like mycontrol.ascx
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Brian
> >
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