Remarks

Operation

This method converts the URI to a format suitable for machine interpretation according to the scheme of the current instance. The conversions are required to preserve all information that could, if removed or altered, change the URI represented by the current instance.

This method performs the following conversions:

• Converts file references to the format of the current platform, for example on a Windows system, file://c|/AFile.txt is converted to "file:///c:/AFile.txt".
• Converts any backslash characters ('\') to forward slashes ('/').
• Compresses multiple consecutive forward slashes ('/') in the path component to a single forward slash.
• Compresses any path meta sequences ("/." and "/..").

Note to Inheritors

Override this method to canonicalize the type derived from Uri .

Usage

Applications do not call this method; it is called by constructors after parsing the URI and escaping the components.

Requirements

Namespace: System
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0