How to check that a uri string is valid

Question

How do you check that a uri string is valid (that you can feed it to the Uri constructor)?

So far I only have the following but for obvious reasons I\'d prefer a les

Answer 1

In my case I just wanted to test the uri, I don't want to slow down the application testing the uri.

Boolean IsValidUri(String uri){
  return Uri.IsWellFormedUriString(uri, UriKind.Absolute);
}