Check that email address is valid for System.Net.Mail.MailAddress

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Curt picture Curt · Aug 11, 2011 · Viewed 28.5k times · Source

Currently, to avoid errors from being thrown up due to invalid email addresses, I do the following:

Dim mailAddress As MailAddress
Try
   mailAddress = New MailAddress("testing@[email protected]")
Catch ex As Exception
   'Invalid email
End Try

However, rather than depending on Try..Catch, is there a way of validating that the email address will be 100% valid for the MailAddress type?

I know there a plenty of regex functions out there for validating emails, but I'm looking for the function which the MailAddress type uses to validate its addresses.

Answer

SLaks picture SLaks · Aug 11, 2011

Unfortunately, there is no MailAddress.TryParse method.

Your code is the ideal way to validate email addresses in .Net.

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