Exception: "URI formats are not supported"

Question

I have an absolute local path pointing to a dir: "file:\\C:\\Users\\john\\documents\\visual studio 2010\\Projects\\proj"

But when I try to throw it into DirectoryInfo's ctor I get the "URI formats are not supported" exception.

I googled and looked on SO, but I only see solutions with remote paths, not local ones. I'd expect a conversion method of some sort...

Answer 1

string uriPath =
    "file:\\C:\\Users\\john\\documents\\visual studio 2010\\Projects\\proj";
string localPath = new Uri(uriPath).LocalPath;

Answer 2

Try This

ImagePath = "http://localhost/profilepics/abc.png";
   HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(ImagePath);
          HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();