How to navigate a few folders up?

Question

One option would be to do System.IO.Directory.GetParent() a few times. Is there a more graceful way of travelling a few folders up from where the executing assembly resides?

Answer 1

Maybe you could use a function if you want to declare the number of levels and put it into a function?

private String GetParents(Int32 noOfLevels, String currentpath)
{
     String path = "";
     for(int i=0; i< noOfLevels; i++)
     {
         path += @"..\";
     }
     path += currentpath;
     return path;
}

And you could call it like this:

String path = this.GetParents(4, currentpath);