OSX, .NET vNext and file paths

I've been playing around with .Net vNext on my OSX laptop and hit a stupid issue with file paths that might possibly trip someone else up.  I was trying to get a .NET program to launch another application and open a file (VLC and an mp3). I had code that looked like this:

var filePath = "/Volumes/StorageHD/Audio/iTunes Music/Air/Talkie Walkie/01 Venus.mp3";
var p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = "/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC";
p.StartInfo.Arguments= filePath;
p.Start();
Console.ReadKey();

This code launches VLC, but each space in the file path is parsed as a new file name, so VLC attempts (and fails) to play iTunes, Talkie, Walkie, 01 and Venus.mp3.

My first attempt to fix this was to escape the file path as a Unix file path i.e.
"/Volumes/StorageHD/Audio/iTunes\ Music/Air/Talkie\ Walkie/01\ Venus.mp3"
which is what I'd use if I were trying to do something similar from the shell:

$ vlc /Volumes/StorageHD/Audio/iTunes\ Music/Air/Talkie\ Walkie/01\ Venus.mp3

This was not the correct option ;) - my little console application threw a lot of stack-tracey goodness, but the main point was "Unrecognized escape sequence".

Instead I needed to escape the path as I would on windows, with the path with spaces in wrapped in double quotes:

var filePath = "\"/Volumes/StorageHD/Audio/iTunes Music/Air/Talkie Walkie/01 Venus.mp3\"";
Notice the escape character ("\") before the wrapping quote.
The final full code is available as a gist https://gist.github.com/StephenFriend/593aa94366cd4733be46

	using System;
	using System.Diagnostics;
	public class Program
	{
	public static void Main()
	{
	var filePath = "\"/Volumes/StorageHD/Audio/iTunes Music/Air/Talkie Walkie/01 Venus.mp3\"";
	var p = new Process();
	p.StartInfo.FileName = "/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC";
	p.StartInfo.Arguments = filePath;
	p.Start();
	Console.ReadKey();
	}
	}

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