Image server control - where am I going wrong?

[John Austin]

I thought I would experiment for the first time with an Image standard
control in VS 2005. I pressed create web site, I copied a jpg into the
App_Data folder, added an image control to Default.aspx and set the ImageUrl
to the jpg ( ~/App_Data/Picture.jpg ). The picture appears in the designer,
but when I run the page there is no picture.

What am I doing wrong - I have no idea!
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John Austin

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Re: Image server control - where am I going wrong?

John Austin wrote:

I thought I would experiment for the first time with an Image standard
control in VS 2005. I pressed create web site, I copied a jpg into the
App_Data folder, added an image control to Default.aspx and set the
ImageUrl to the jpg ( ~/App_Data/Picture.jpg ). The picture appears
in the designer, but when I run the page there is no picture.
>

There was no way for you to know it (except maybe by browsing through some
of the previous questions before posting yours - always a recommended
practice) , but this is a classic asp newsgroup. ASP.Net bears very little
resemblance to classic ASP so,
while you may be lucky enough to find a dotnet-knowledgeable person here who
can answer your question, you can eliminate the luck factor by posting your
question to a group where those dotnet-knowledgeable people hang out. I
suggest microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.aspnet.


Don't use the App_Data folder. Create a folder called images and put the
image file in that folder.
From http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/445z2s49.aspx:
When you create a Web site in Visual Web Developer, Visual Web Developer
creates a folder named App_Data below the current root folder. The folder is
designed to be a store for application data, including Access databases. The
App_Data folder is also used by ASP.NET to store databases that the system
maintains, such as the database for membership and roles. When Visual Web
Developer creates the App_Data folder, it grants Read and Write permissions
for the folder to the ASPNET or NETWORK SERVICE user account.

Note
As a security measure, files in the App_data folder are not served by
the Web server. Do not store any Web pages in the App_Data folder, because
users will see an error if they request a page from that folder.



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[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Re: Image server control - where am I going wrong?

Thanks Bob for your excellent and professional answer.

Hi John,

Thank you for using MSDN Managed Newsgroup Service!

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