Path.Combine absolute with relative path strings
What Works:
string relativePath = "..\\bling.txt";string baseDirectory = "C:\\blah\\";string absolutePath = Path.GetFullPath(baseDirectory + relativePath);(result: absolutePath="C:\bling.txt")
What doesn't work
string relativePath = "..\\bling.txt";Uri baseAbsoluteUri = new Uri("C:\\blah\\");string absolutePath = new Uri(baseAbsoluteUri, relativePath).AbsolutePath;(result: absolutePath="C:/blah/bling.txt")
Call Path.GetFullPath on the combined path http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.getfullpath.aspx
> Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(@"C:\blah\",@"..\bling"))C:\bling(I agree Path.Combine ought to do this by itself)