ASP.NET MVC URL auto-resolution in CSS files

Question

In normal WebForms scenario, any root-relative URLs (e.g. ~/folder/file.txt) inside CSS files such as:

.form { background-image: url(~/Content/I         


        

Answer 1

I created a PathHelper util class that gives me all the paths I need. For example

" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

Gives me the correct full url with the help of System.Web.VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute() and my own convention (content/css/yourFile.css).

I did the same for js, xml, t9n, pics... Its central, reusable and now I only had to change one line to catch the move of the scripts folder from content/js to Scripts in all my websites and pages.

A moronic move if you ask me, but it's reality in the current beta :(