Exception: “URI formats are not supported”

Question

I have an absolute local path pointing to a dir: \"file:\\\\C:\\\\Users\\\\john\\\\documents\\\\visual studio 2010\\\\Projects\\\\proj\"

But when I try

Answer 1

Try This

ImagePath = "http://localhost/profilepics/abc.png";
   HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(ImagePath);
          HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();