For the full path use Page.ResolveUrl(), for a relative path (relative to the user's browser) use Page.ResolveClientUrl. Both will take in the ~ format and map it to a real path. If you are in a control, the methods are available from Control as well (Page is a type of Control). Jeremy Likness Latest Article: Whats in Your Collection? Part 1 of 3: Interfaces Blog: C#er : IMage

First of all this should have been posted in the ASP.NET Boards[^]. From what I recall, you are going to have to use ~ to go to the root of the directory. i.e. localhost/Project-Name/Restricted/test.aspx = ~/Restricted/test.aspx so even if you were on localhost/Project-Name/Restricted/test.aspx you could reference to the login page with something like this (assuming your login page is in the root of the website), ~/login.aspx If at first you don't succeed ... post it on The Code Project and Pray.