Path.Combine absolute with relative path strings

Question

I\'m trying to join a Windows path with a relative path using Path.Combine.

However, Path.Combine(@\"C:\\blah\",@\"..\\bling\") returns C:\\blah\\

Answer 1

Call Path.GetFullPath on the combined path http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.getfullpath.aspx

> Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(@"C:\blah\",@"..\bling"))
C:\bling

(I agree Path.Combine ought to do this by itself)