Best implementation for an isNumber(string) method

Question

In my limited experience, I\'ve been on several projects that have had some sort of string utility class with methods to determine if a given string is a number. The idea h

Answer 1

I use this but I liked Asaph's rigor in his post.

public static bool IsNumeric(object expression)
{
if (expression == null)
return false;

double number;
return Double.TryParse(Convert.ToString(expression, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture),   NumberStyles.Any,
NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo, out number);
}