Does there exist a method in C# to get the relative path given two absolute path inputs? [duplicate]

Question

Does there exist a method in C# to get the relative path given two absolute path inputs?

That is I would have two inputs (with the first folder as the base) such as

c:\temp1\adam\

and

c:\temp1\jamie\

Then the output would be

..\jamie\

Answer 1

Not sure if there is a better way, but this will work:

var file1 = @"c:\temp1\adam\";
var file2 = @"c:\temp1\jamie\";

var result = new Uri(file1)
    .MakeRelativeUri(new Uri(file2))
    .ToString()
    .Replace("/", "\\");

Answer 2

this is simple. Steps:

1. Remove common beginning of string (c:\temp1\)
2. Count number of directories of first path (1 in your case)
3. Replace them with ..
4. Add second path