What is the correct way to check if a path is an UNC path or a local path?

Question

The easiest way to check if a path is an UNC path is of course to check if the first character in the full path is a letter or backslash. Is this a good solution or could th

Answer 1

Try this extension method:

public static bool IsUncPath(this string path)
{
    return Uri.TryCreate(path, UriKind.Absolute, out Uri uri) && uri.IsUnc;
}