How to Access Static Content/Files in MVC Application?

Introduction

This tip will provide you different methods to access the static content in MVC project. 

Solution

In an MVC application, we want to access static files like some static Html pages or images.

Example: We have some static files like “AboutUs.html”, “Map.jpg”.

Method 1

To solve this, we need to make changes in Route.Config file to ignore those extension files.

routes.IgnoreRoute("{fileName}.jpg");
routes.IgnoreRoute("{fileName}.html");

Method 2

Add a folder named “Static” at the root of tour application and put all your static files there.

Now, you can access all the files from this folder directly without any issue.

Result:

Thanks for reading!