How to build a Url?

Question

Are there any helper classes available in .NET to allow me to build a Url?

For example, if a user enters a string:

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Answer 1

To be valid a URI needs to have the scheme component. "server:8088" is not a valid URI. "http://server:8088" is. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986