A better way to validate URL in C# than try-catch?

Question

I\'m building an application to retrieve an image from internet. Even though it works fine, it is slow (on wrong given URL) when using try-catch statements in the applicatio

Answer 1

My solution:

string regular = @"^(ht|f|sf)tp(s?)\:\/\/[0-9a-zA-Z]([-.\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z])*(:(0-9)*)*(\/?)([a-zA-Z0-9\-\.\?\,\'\/\\\+&%\$#_]*)?$";
string myString = textBox1.Text.Trim();
if (Regex.IsMatch(myString, regular))
{
    MessageBox.Show("it is valide url  " + myString);
}
else
{
    MessageBox.Show("InValide url  " + myString);
}