How to get the physical path or fullpath of the file in silverlight?

nitincn

Hi all.. I ran into an issue while implementing BITS, the problem is while creating a job in BITS we have to send the local path (physical path like c:/doc/sample.txt) but Silverlight will not give us the physical path or fullpath. It says access denied. How to get the physical path or fullpath of the file in silverlight? Thanks Nitin C.N

realJSOP

Silverlight doesn't allow access to client-side files. If you're talking about a server side file, look at the HtmlPage.Document object - you might be able to get it from that. What is "BITS"?

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What is "BITS"?

Background Intelligent Transfer Service[^].

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Abhinav S

In addition to John's answer, if you are using WCF to communicate to BITS (Im not sure what that is), you can get the path via WCF.

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Kunal Chowdhury IN

Hi Nitin, I think, I already answered your query through Twitter & my Blog. You can't get the physical path in Silverlight (assume you want the client side path). If you want server side path, it is easy to do in your server side code & return thru service call. But, as it is Silverlight, I assume, you want the path of client PC. No, you can't. There are some security reason while the application is running inside the browser sandbox. If you install it as fully trusted out-of-browser application, you can get it. Read the Article for some reference: File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability[^]. It may help you.

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