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Validate Email Address

Validating user input often includes validating whether the user have supplied a valid email address - validating email addresses often take the course of regular expressions, however there seems to be no definite solution. I once saw a guy who just tested whether the .Net Framework MailAddress would instantitate with the address and I thought it was great so since then that is what I have been doing (the method of course is not so great if you want to validate client side).

Usage

• Example
  • I use the ValidateAddress function in many projects, eg. in my Discussions WebControl then users supply an email address for their profile.
• Example Code

  • bool emailAddressIsValid = Utils.Email.ValidateAddress("rasmus@webmodelling.com");
    

The ValidateAddress function :

public static bool ValidateAddress(string pEmailAddress)
{
	bool addressIsValid = true;
	try
	{
		MailAddress mailAddress = new MailAddress(pEmailAddress);
	}
	catch
	{
		addressIsValid = false;
	}
 
	return addressIsValid;
}

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