Simulating an UNC path with a leading dot
- by Uwe Keim
Being a C# .NET Windows Forms developer, some customers are running our applications on an Apple OS X Mac inside a Parallels virtual machine.
Parallels presents host folders to the guest Windows as UNC paths with a leading dot like
\\.psf\Home\Some\More\Folders
Now an application of us cannot handle the leading dot correctly when accessing…