Image Tag (helper) displaying on the HtmlGenerationWebSite

[ignatandrei]

The Image Tag (helper) is not displaying the images
Steps to reproduce:
1, Open the MVC.sln solution from branch rel/1.1.1
2. Go to HtmlGenerationWebSite project, set as startup
3. Run the project - it will go to http://locahost:<port> . Modify to http://locahost:<port>/HtmlGeneration_Home/image
4. Assert all images are not seeing ( red block, red versioning)
e.g. this image will not display

<img src="~/images/red.png" alt="Red block" title="&lt;the title>">

Solution( and I will make a fork and pull request ASAP)

1. Add "
   Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles": "1.1.0"
   to project,json
2. Add
   app.UseStaticFiles();
   in the
   public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
   from Startup class.

[Eilon]

@dougbu any thoughts on this? Is this supposed to work? (Presumably, yes...)

[dougbu]

We don't worry too much about the end-to-end behaviour of the functional test sites. The most important thing here is that src="~/images/red.png" in the .cshtml results in src="/images/red.png" in the generated HTML.

That said, adding StaticFiles to the project has no downside.

[dougbu]

• 1840d68. Thanks very much @ignatandrei
• tiny cleanup in cc584ad