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Uri::Scheme Property

.NET Framework (current version)
 

Gets the scheme name for this URI.

Namespace:   System
Assembly:  System (in System.dll)

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public:
property String^ Scheme {
	String^ get();
}

Property Value

Type: System::String^

A String that contains the scheme for this URI, converted to lowercase.

Exception Condition
InvalidOperationException

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

The Scheme property returns the scheme used to initialize the Uri instance. This property does not indicate that the scheme used to initialize the Uri instance was recognized.

The following table shows examples of some possible values returned by the Scheme property.

Scheme

Description

file

The resource is a file on the local computer.

ftp

The resource is accessed through FTP.

gopher

The resource is accessed through the Gopher protocol.

http

The resource is accessed through HTTP.

https

The resource is accessed through SSL-encrypted HTTP.

ldap

The resource is accessed through the LDAP protocol.

mailto

The resource is an e-mail address and accessed through the SMTP protocol.

net.pipe

The resource is accessed through a named pipe.

net.tcp

The resource is accessed from TCP endpoint.

news

The resource is accessed through the NNTP protocol.

nntp

The resource is accessed through the NNTP protocol.

telnet

The resource is accessed through the TELNET protocol.

uuid

The resource is accessed through a unique UUID endpoint name for communicating with a service.

The following example writes the scheme name (http) to the console for the http://www.contoso.com/ URI.

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Uri^ baseUri = gcnew Uri( "http://www.contoso.com/" );
Uri^ myUri = gcnew Uri( baseUri,"catalog/shownew.htm?date=today" );
Console::WriteLine( myUri->Scheme );

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
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