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Uri Class
Uri Properties
 LocalPath Property

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Uri..::.LocalPath Property

Gets a local operating-system representation of a file name.

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  System (in System.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public ReadOnly Property LocalPath As String
Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim instance As Uri
Dim value As String

value = instance.LocalPath
C#
public string LocalPath { get; }
Visual C++
public:
property String^ LocalPath {
    String^ get ();
}
JScript
public function get LocalPath () : String

Property Value

Type: System..::.String
A String that contains the local operating-system representation of a file name.
ExceptionCondition
InvalidOperationException

This instance represents a relative URI, and this property is valid only for absolute URIs.

The value returned by this property is unescaped. If the path is recognized as a Windows file path, all forward slashes (/) are replaced by backward slashes (\).

For the URI file://computer/file.ext, the absolute path is /file.ext and the local path is \\computer\file.ext.

The following example creates a Uri instance and writes the local path to the console.

Visual Basic
    Dim uriAddress2 As New Uri("file://server/filename.ext")
    Console.WriteLine(uriAddress2.LocalPath)
    Console.WriteLine("Uri {0} a UNC path", IIf(uriAddress2.IsUnc, "is", "is not")) 'TODO: For performance reasons this should be changed to nested IF statements
    Console.WriteLine("Uri {0} a local host", IIf(uriAddress2.IsLoopback, "is", "is not")) 'TODO: For performance reasons this should be changed to nested IF statements
    Console.WriteLine("Uri {0} a file", IIf(uriAddress2.IsFile, "is", "is not")) 'TODO: For performance reasons this should be changed to nested IF statements

End Sub 'GetParts

C#
Uri uriAddress2 =  new Uri("file://server/filename.ext");
Console.WriteLine(uriAddress2.LocalPath);
Console.WriteLine("Uri {0} a UNC path", uriAddress2.IsUnc ? "is" : "is not");
Console.WriteLine("Uri {0} a local host", uriAddress2.IsLoopback ? "is" : "is not");
Console.WriteLine("Uri {0} a file", uriAddress2.IsFile ? "is" : "is not");

Visual C++
Uri^ uriAddress2 = gcnew Uri( "file://server/filename.ext" );
Console::WriteLine( uriAddress2->LocalPath );
Console::WriteLine( "Uri {0} a UNC path", uriAddress2->IsUnc ? (String^)"is" : "is not" );
Console::WriteLine( "Uri {0} a local host", uriAddress2->IsLoopback ? (String^)"is" : "is not" );
Console::WriteLine( "Uri {0} a file", uriAddress2->IsFile ? (String^)"is" : "is not" );

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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0
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How to get a valid filename from an uri      Luca Minudel   |   Edit   |   Show History

When you have an uri location for a file like here:

string fileLocation = @"file://localhost/F:/Musica/_Selezioni/Bj%C3%B6rk%2FDebut%2F01.Human%20Behaviour.mp3";


you can extract a valid filename (one that you can use with System.IO.File and System.IO.FileInfo) with GetComponents() method:

Uri fileUri = new Uri(fileLocation);
string filename = fileUri.GetComponents(UriComponents.Path, UriFormat.SafeUnescaped);



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URI.LocalPath problem      adam.sida   |   Edit   |   Show History

when calling following code:

string filePath = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase;
Uri u = new Uri(filePath);
string filename = u.GetComponents(UriComponents.Path, UriFormat.SafeUnescaped);
string path = u.LocalPath;

the uri object returns only fragment of whole path to file, by splitting path somewhere in the middle ;-(
tested on .NET 2.0, .NET3.5
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