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

The following example writes the complete contents of the Uri instance to the console. In the example shown,

http://www.cartechnewz.com/catalog/shownew.htm?date=today

is written to the console.

Uri baseUri = new Uri("http://www.cartechnewz.com");
Uri myUri = new Uri(baseUri, "catalog/shownew.htm?date=today");
Console.WriteLine(myUri.AbsoluteUri);

The AbsoluteUri property includes the entire URI stored in the Uri instance, including all fragments and query strings.