How to get relative path from absolute path

Question

There\'s a part in my apps that displays the file path loaded by the user through OpenFileDialog. It\'s taking up too much space to display the whole path, but I don\'t want

Answer 1

If you are using .NET Core 2.0, Path.GetRelativePath() is available providing this specific functionality:

        var relativeTo = @"C:\Program Files\Dummy Folder\MyProgram";
        var path = @"C:\Program Files\Dummy Folder\MyProgram\Data\datafile1.dat";

        string relativePath = System.IO.Path.GetRelativePath(relativeTo, path);

        System.Console.WriteLine(relativePath);
        // output --> Data\datafile1.dat 

Otherwise, for .NET full framework (as of v4.7) recommend using one of the other suggested answers.