Parsing a URI / URL in C# and VB.NET

I used to spend time parsing a URL string using old fashion .NET string methods. (Contains, Split, Substring, IndexOf, etc). I always thought, "There must be a better way to do this."

And there is, there is a tool in the .NET Framework to help you parse a fully qualified URI path.

System.UriBuilder

A few simple lines of code

Does a lot of the work for us.

 

And this is just one of the Uri tools. I encourage you to look at the others as well.

• System.Uri
• System.UriComponents
• System.UriFormat
• System.UriHostNameType
• System.UriIdnScope
• System.UriKind
• System.UriParser
• System.UriPartial
• System.UriTypeConverter