Removing "..\..\" from directory string.

@"C:\Projects\Test\bin\..\Media" = "C:\Projects\Test\bin\..\Media" i am not sure what you are trying to achieve but the above are equal. .NET puts a @ infront of strings to denote them as strings just incase you have \ or other characters that are used in .NET for other purposes what is it that u want to do with @"C:\Projects\Test\bin\..\Media" ? if you want to create a directory from it, this works fine, System.IO.Directory.Create(@"C:\Projects\Test\bin\..\Media" ); \ is a special character in c# (as it was special in c++), so if you want to use it as part of a string you have to tell the compiler that u want it as a string by placing @ infront of your string value.

Where are you getting that string from? The easiest way would be to parse the string into an array of subdirectories. The run through the array building a new path. Before you add an element to path, look at the next element to see if it isa "\..". If it is, skip them both.