What's the difference between Uri.ToString() and Uri.AbsoluteUri?

Question

As a comment to an Azure question just now, @smarx noted

I think it\'s generally better to do blob.Uri.AbsoluteUri than blob.Uri.ToString().

Answer 1

Since everybody seems to think that uri.AbsoluteUri is better, but because it fails with relative paths, then probably the universal way would be:

Uri uri = new Uri("fuu/bar.xyz", UriKind.Relative);
string notCorruptUri = Uri.EscapeUriString(uri.ToString());