Converting Windows local file paths to uri and vice versa

I needed to covert a windows local file path to a uri in order to pass it to a browser control.

e.g.
I wanted to convert a local windows path in the form:
"C:\Documents and Settings\William Tell\My Documents\TestClient"
to the form:
"file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/William%20Tell/My%20Documents/TestClient"

This conversion is supported by the framwork System.Uri class.
Here is some code:

string localPath = @"C:\Documents and Settings\William Tell\My Documents\TestClient";
Uri uri = new Uri( localPath );
string absoluteUri = uri.AbsoluteUri;


The value of absoluteUri is:
"file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/William%20Tell/My%20Documents/TestClient"

Conversely, we can convert the uri back to a local path as follows:


string absoluteUri = @"file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/William%20Tell/My%20Documents/TestClient";
Uri uri = new Uri( absoluteUri );
string localPath = uri.LocalPath;


The value of local path is:
""C:\\Documents and Settings\\William Tell\\My Documents\\TestClient"

Hope somebody finds this helpful.