Question

Is it possible to either use the System.IO.Path class, or some similar object to format a unix style path, providing similar functionality to the PATH class? For example, I can do:

Console.WriteLine(Path.Combine("c:\\", "windows"));

Which shows:

"C:\\windows"

But is I try a similar thing with forward slashes (/) it just reverses them for me.

Console.WriteLine(Path.Combine("/server", "mydir"));

Which shows:

"/server\\mydir"

Answer 1

In this case i would use the class System.Uri or System.UriBuilder.

Side note: If you run your .NET code on a Linux-System with the Mono-Runtime, the Path class should return your expected behavior. The information that the Path class uses are provided by the underlying system.