Question

I was looking for something like Server.MapPath in the ASP.NET realm to convert the output of Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase into a file path with drive letter.

The following code works for the test cases I’ve tried:

private static string ConvertUriToPath(string fileName) {     fileName = fileName.Replace("file:///", "");     fileName = fileName.Replace("/", "\\");     return fileName; } 

It seems like there should be something in the .NET Framework that would be much better–I just haven’t been able to find it.

Answer 1

Try looking at the Uri.LocalPath property.

private static string ConvertUriToPath(string fileName) {    Uri uri = new Uri(fileName);    return uri.LocalPath;     // Some people have indicated that uri.LocalPath doesn't     // always return the corret path. If that's the case, use    // the following line:    // return uri.GetComponents(UriComponents.Path, UriFormat.SafeUnescaped); }