How do I check if a given string is a legal/valid file name under Windows?

Question

I want to include a batch file rename functionality in my application. A user can type a destination filename pattern and (after replacing some wildcards in the pattern) I n

Answer 1

This is an already answered question, but just for the sake of "Other options", here's a non-ideal one:

(non-ideal because using Exceptions as flow control is a "Bad Thing", generally)

public static bool IsLegalFilename(string name)
{
    try 
    {
        var fileInfo = new FileInfo(name);
        return true;
    }
    catch
    {
        return false;
    }
}