ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Using the VirtualPathProvider Class

The VirtualPathProvider class enables you to abstract the pages in a web application from the file system. In other words, it enables you to store your ASP.NET pages any way you please.

For example, you can use the VirtualPathProvider class to store all the pages in your application in a database. This would be an appropriate choice when you need to build a Content Management System. If you store pages in a database, users can update the pages easily in an application through an HTML form interface and save the changes to the database.

In this section, we present you with some basic information about the VirtualPathProvider class. We do not go into too much detail or provide a lengthy code example because ...