[Mono-devel-list] Problems with IO.Directory.Exists and AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

[Ivan Hawkes]

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The wheels of conversion move onwards and I am now at the next problem. I have 
a sample ASPX page that calls a library which is also shared with my little 
simpletest.exe program. The simpletest.exe program runs the code fine and the 
ASPX doesn't. It comes down to a difference in the way they are implementing 
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.

simpletest.exe returns a result similar to this:

/home/ivan/simpletest/

and ASPX program returns this:

file:///home/ivan/christinahawkes/

As you can see, the ASPX program has pre-pended the dir with file://. This may 
or may not be valid behaviour since it's hard to tell from the MS docs. The 
problem comes in when I make a call to IO.Directory.Exists. The first form is 
acceptable and returns a correct result, but the one starting with file:/// 
is not acceptable and returns a false, even though that dir actually exists.

Is this a problem with the runtime? Should IO.Directory.Exists be able to 
parse file:// etc?
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