Is there a URL validator on .Net?

Question

Is there a method to validate URLs in .Net, ASP.Net, or ASP.Net MVC?

Answer 1

You can use the Uri.TryCreate to validate an URL:

public bool IsValidUri(string uri)
{
    Uri validatedUri;
    return Uri.TryCreate(uri, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute, out validatedUri);
}

The comments suggest that TryCreate just moves the exception handling one level down. However, I checked the source code and found that this is not the case. There is no try/catch inside TryCreate, it uses a custom parser which should not throw.