VS 2022, BC30456 'Join' is not a member of Path - ?!

[IlyaRabyy]

Colleagues,
Whatever new product MS releases - it's usually quite buggy/fleassy/roachy/whateverUcallit, but it has never happened with Visual Studio that what worked in previous version doesn't wanna work in the next version!
But here it is:

Whereas the VS documentation says:

Here's the link:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.path.join?view=net-8.0

Any ideas how to circumvent this VS's discrepancy?

Just in case, here's the function's full code (and note this persisting autoindentation, BTW):

======================================================================================================================
Public Function AddBackSlash(ByVal tsPath As String) As String
	'===================================================================================================================================
	' Purpose       : Ensures the given path string has backslash at the end.
	' Description   : Checks if the passed parameter's data type match those of the Function's argument; if not – throws error message 
	'                 and returns unchanged parameter.
	'                 Checks if it's an empty string, if it is - returns it As-Is.
	'                 Checks if it's only a file name, if it is - returns it As-Is.
	'                 Checks the given parameter-string in case it's full path to a file, cuts off the file name if it is.
	'                 Checks if the given parameter-string has backslash at the end, adds it if it has not.
	' Parameters    : Path as String - mandatory
	' Returns       : Path with the backslash at the end, as String.
	' Side effects  : None.
	' Notes         : 1. Generic, applies with .NET Framework ver. 1.1, .NET Core 1.0, .NET Standard 1.0 and higher.
	'                 2. Verbose on errors, silent otherwise.
	'===================================================================================================================================
	Dim lsMsg As String = "", lsRet As String = "" 'lsPath As String = "", 

	' Parameter's verification
	If VarType(tsPath) <> VariantType.String Then
		lsMsg = "Invalid parameter passed: " & Chr(34) & "tsPath" & Chr(34) & " must be of type String!"
		MsgBox(lsMsg, MsgBoxStyle.Critical, "Fatal Error: INVALID PARAMETER")
		Return lsRet
	End If

	If String.IsNullOrEmpty(tsPath) Then
		Return lsRet
	End If

	
	lsRet = System.IO.Path.Join(tsPath, ".").TrimEnd(".")
	
	Return lsRet
End Function
'===================================================================================================================================

Regards,

Ilya

 

[MarkSweetland]

Path.Combine() if you are working in the .Net Framework or .Net Standard 2.0 and below. Join was added to .Net Standard 2.1. The documentation page you show has .Net 8 as the Version number reference.





Mark

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