While working with WCF services hosted in IIS7 with non-HTTP endpoints (such as TCP or NamedPipes), we realized that our usual way to resolve a phisycal file path corresponding to a virtual path on the web server is not supported.
In ASP.NET, we use HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath method, but HttpContext.Current is null in WCF services with non-HTTP endpoints. What shall we do? It turns out that there is another way to map a virtual path: using the HostingEnvironment class. See the example below.
public static string MapPath(string path)
{
if (HttpContext.Current != null)
return HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(path);
return HostingEnvironment.MapPath(path);
}
Happy coding!