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Using the tilde character ~ for baseRoute-relative references is confusing, considering that it’s used for application-relative paths everywhere else, e.g.
- Razor:
<a href="~/">Home</a> - View engine:
Html.Partial("~/Views/Shared/Foo.cshtml") - Other:
VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/foo")
Using the double tilde ~~ for application-relative references is also confusing, given the above. It also looks weird.
Proposal for v2
Change the single tilde to application-relative (keeping the double tilde for back compat) and introduce a new character for baseRoute-relative, e.g. Url.Action("", "^Account")
Note: Custom routes also use single tilde.