I am looking for an equivalent of the WinForms application object.  I need to determine the location where the application was loaded from so that I can access an XML file containing encrypted database connection string information.  I don't want to hard-code the location of the file.

I would normally use the WinForms application object for this purpose.  Is there an equivalent to the application object for Visual Web GUI?

 Thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide.