Excellent article.... Really helped me out

Yes, it's very handy method.

Well, here is a method to resolve URLs for HTML tags, which are not or cannot be marked with runat="server":

<a href="<%= ResolveUrl("~/Customers/Profile.aspx") %>">Profile</a>

Just use <%=%> to place small pieces of code into HTML.

JIT information. :) Great work, and thanks!

It does not add the server, the output is more like

<a href="/site/Customers/Profile.aspx" Runat="server">Profile</a>

Thanks for your tip on the VirtualPathUtility. I had to implement something like this for a WebService, but I needed the full url to the root. Here's my C# code:

string path = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/setup.msi");

// this should return the end portion of the url (ie: /test/setup.msi)

// so we should be able to use this to find our actual url:

string baseurl = Context.Request.Url.GetComponents(UriComponents.SchemeAndServer, UriFormat.Unescaped);

string url = Config.UriCombine(baseurl, path);

return url;

The helper method UriCombine (like Path.Combine):

public static string UriCombine(string str, params string[] param)

{

    string b = str;

    for (int i = 0; i < param.Length; i++)

    {

        if (!b.EndsWith("/"))

        {

            b = b + "/";

        }

        Uri uri = new Uri(b);

        b = new Uri(uri, param[i]).AbsoluteUri;

    }

    return new Uri(b).AbsoluteUri;

}