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

Use it.....

string myString = http//:google.com;
Uri myUri;
Uri.TryCreate(myString, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute, out myUri);
 if (myUri.IsAbsoluteUri == false)
 {
  MessageBox.Show("Please Input Valid Feed Url");
 }