title: Visual Studio and ASP.Net Path question
body: <p>Question about paths while working in Visual Studio. In my master page I have some paths to load css files as well as javascript files. </p>
  
  <p>My first question is if I use relative paths, should the relative path be from the location of the master page file? For example if I keep all my master page files in a folder off the site root called MasterPages should I assume that is the starting point for my relative paths to load the css files? If that master page is used to wrap an aspx file several directories down the tree is the hard coded relative path still valid?</p>
  
  <p>Second question, is there a way to use absolute paths so that everything works on my local machine as well as when I move the files up to the webroot? For example my app path on my local machine may be localhost/myappdir/default.aspx but when i move the app to the server there is no myappdir and the default.aspx is in the webroot. I do not want to have to change paths in the files after they are moved up to the server.</p>
  
  <p>currently I have..</p>
  
  <p>src="&lt;%= VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/lib/css/style.css")%>"</p>
  
  <p>but this way Visual Studio cannot find the css file to update intellisence </p>