Which is getting annoying and long because I have to include this anytime I want to transverse a different directory. Is there a universal way to type application paths so I don’t have to do the \ and / ?
Path characters in .NET are just / for everything, regardless of Mac or Windows. If you wanted to use \ for Windows anyway, you could define a path char depending on the platform, and use pathChar instead of hard-coding / and \ everywhere.
Actually the / part has nothing to do with .NET I think, since Windows NT4 or at latest 2000, windows has always supported / instead of \ in the paths. the \ enforcement only existed on the “insecure perma-BSOD” media OS aka Win95, 98 and ME and naturally the 3.1 and earlier versions