When running ASPNET Core application in Ubuntu 16.04 how can I access a file in another folder?

Question

I am trying to run an ASP5/MVC6 ASPNET core application in Ubuntu 16.04 using dotnet core 1.1. My application resides in one directory off of the users home directory, and

Answer 1

you can use 'ln' to Make a Link to '/home/myuser/myimages' in your working directory

then you can reference files in your working directory