Most general way to make a Uri object?

Question

I need to convert all of the following forms into .NET Uri object:

• "hello.world"
• "..\something\somthing"
• "../something/somthing/else"
• "c:\autoexec.bat"
• "http://whatever.com/nevermind.html"
• more or less anything else that you might expect to find in something building local or web path.

I have already checked an new Uri("..\somthing\something") and new Uri("../something/somthing/else") don't work. Also none Uri's statics seem to be for this.

Any ideas beside a big logic tree and/or regex?

Answer 1

Try the following

new Uri("../whatever",UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);

Without the RelativeOrAbsolute flag the Uri will attempt to parse a complete absolute URI. Adding the flag will let it parse essentially any valid URI (relative or absolute)