I'm trying to replace a hardcoded string with a variable as follows: // THIS WORKS // private void validate() { Response.Redirect ("http://www.mysite.com/images/image.gif <http://www.mysite.com/images/image.gif>", true); } // THIS DOES NOT // string baseURL = "http://www.mysite.com <http://www.mysite.com>"; private void validate() { Response.Redirect (baseURL + "/images/image.gif", true); } I'm new to ASP.NET ... could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong above? -- Ryan