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VirtualPathUtility Class
It's amazing how many different things are built-into the .NET framework. As soon as you think you've seen just about everything you come across something that you didn't even realize was there. That happened tonight as I read through a series of listserv posts covering different techniques for working with relative paths in ASP.NET applications. David Ebbo (Microsoft) mentioned using the VirtualPathUtility class (System.Web namespace) which I hadn't used or even heard of. It greatly simplifies working with virtual directories....cool stuff. Here's an example from the SDK: