Why imageurl does not accept the absolute path in asp.net?

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<pre lang="xml"><%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Expt_Image2.aspx.cs" Inherits="Expt_Image2" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>

        <asp:Image ID="Image1" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/Image/Bluehills.jpg" Height="100" Width="100"/>
           <asp:Image ID="Image2" runat="server" ImageUrl="C:\Documents and Settings\Lovey\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\Expt-New\Image\Sunset.jpg" Height="100" Width="100"/>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

In this first image is displayed not second why?

Posted 13-Feb-11 22:20pm

jagdeep gupta

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jim lahey · Answer 1 · 2011-02-13T22:24:00

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Because your second path is a local file path and not a Url. You should really use Urls.

Posted 13-Feb-11 22:24pm

jim lahey