Author: nighthawk75 | Posted on: 5/6/2010 4:32:06 PM | Views : 404

I have an ASP web Applicaton using C# that runs great on my local host where I can access the documents via Fully qualified path (e.g., C://MyProjects/MyProject/File.xls).
However once I publish this to a server (and it is a virtual server) I can no longer provide a fully qualified path name I can only give something like (//server/project/File.xls - which is the path I publish to) and it doesn't like this at all.  First it doesn't publish the documents to the server even though I added them to my project.  So I put them on the server manually and even tried adding the documents as embedded resources but that doesn't allow me to edit and open them as needed.  
This is really a pain.  Why can I not just put them in the file path and access them using "File.xls" like I used to in the old days?  I don't like this change at all.  It should not take me a day to figure out how to access a document on a ...

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