what is virtual path

Hi..Rajesh

A virtual path is shorthand to represent physical paths. If you use virtual paths, you can move your pages to a different domain (or server) without having to update the paths.
For More Information...you refer these follow link

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/webpages_folders.asp?output=print

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Sravya

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When working with resources in a Web project, you must often specify a path for the resource. For example, you might use a URL path to reference an image file in a page or the URL of a page elsewhere in the Web site. Similarly, code in your Web project might use a physical file path to a server-based file to read or write the file. ASP.NET provides ways for you to refer to resources and to determine the paths of pages or other resources in the application.
using this we can get path

Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + Request.ApplicationPath

VirtualPathUtility.GetDirectory(Request.Path)

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Virtual path

1)The virtual path provider system is a method of raising the layer of abstraction when it comes to ASP.NET and the file system.
2)This virtual path provider system is primarily driven by three abstract classes in the System.Web.Hosting namespace, VirtualPathProvider, VirtualFile, and VirtualDirectory.
3)Virtual file system can contain any file in the web application other than
1) Binaries
2) Web.config
3) Global.asax
4)Files in special folder such as App_Data and so on
4)ASP.NET the "~" tilde indicates the root of a virtual path. We need the tilde because otherwise ASP.NET can't figure out if a path is absolute or relative.

Virtual paths

~/App_Data/Sample.xml
~/
~/Map.txt

Physical paths

C:\Website\Files\Sample.xml
C:\Website\Default.aspx
C:\Website\Map.txt
5)The domain name part of the path is not really a property of the application itself, but depends on the requesting URL. You might be able to reach a single Web site from many different host names. To get the domain name associated with the current request, along with the virtual path of the current application, you could do:

Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + Request.ApplicationPath

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Virtual path is only site name like "www.google.com"
but physical path for that is different which accessed by virtual name "www.google.com"

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