VirtualPathProvider.GetFile(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Web.Hosting

Assembly:

System.Web.dll

Gets a virtual file from the virtual file system.

public:
 virtual System::Web::Hosting::VirtualFile ^ GetFile(System::String ^ virtualPath);

public virtual System.Web.Hosting.VirtualFile GetFile (string virtualPath);

abstract member GetFile : string -> System.Web.Hosting.VirtualFile
override this.GetFile : string -> System.Web.Hosting.VirtualFile

Public Overridable Function GetFile (virtualPath As String) As VirtualFile

Parameters

virtualPath

String

The path to the virtual file.

Returns

VirtualFile

A descendent of the VirtualFile class that represents a file in the virtual file system.

Examples

The following code example is an implementation of the GetFile method in a custom VirtualPathProvider class. For the full code required to run the example, see the Example section of the VirtualPathProvider class overview topic.

public override VirtualFile GetFile(string virtualPath)
{
  if (IsPathVirtual(virtualPath))
    return new SampleVirtualFile(virtualPath, this);
  else
    return Previous.GetFile(virtualPath);
}

Public Overrides Function GetFile(ByVal virtualPath As String) As VirtualFile
  If (IsPathVirtual(virtualPath)) Then
    Return New SampleVirtualFile(virtualPath, Me)
  Else
    Return Previous.GetFile(virtualPath)
  End If
End Function

Remarks

The GetFile method returns a descendent of the VirtualFile class that represents the file specified by the virtualPath parameter.