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

I have some virtual directories and I cannot use Directory methods. So, I made a simple split/join function for those interested. Not as safe though.

var splitResult = filePath.Split(new[] {'/', '\\'}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
var newFilePath = Path.Combine(filePath.Take(splitResult.Length - 1).ToArray());

So, if you want to move 4 up, you just need to change the 1 to 4 and add some checks to avoid exceptions.