Standardize the behavior of ~ (without slash) paths

[pranavkm]

Seems like a general problem: Url.Content resolves ~Text.css as /Text.css.
However this doesn't work with url resolution in Views: e.g.
<link href="~Text.css" /> gets printed as is. This also seems to be the behavior in Mvc 5

There are other places in the application (for instance view resolution) where we specifically look for ~/ rather than just ~.

[danroth27]

Sounds like a minor issue with Url.Content. Using ~/ is the supported pattern

[pranavkm]

Using ~ is also the supported pattern per #2896 - it just doesn't work everywhere.

[Eilon]

Can we just special case "~" as being "app path"? Doing "~foo" seems esoteric and odd... and wrong...

[pranavkm]

Can we just special case "~" as being "app path"

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