Pls help me to validate EMAIL ID..ASAP!!!

hi! everyone.... im doing my project and i need some help from u who knows VB.Net..

does anyone know how to valid8 err, validate an email ID...considering the @ and .

i hope anyone can help me... As Soon AS Possible....

thanks and God's Speed... does any1 knows how to validate an EMAIL ID... considering the @ and . signs.....

Try using regular expressions...

"Email validator that adheres directly to the specification for email address naming. It allows for everything from ipaddress and country-code domains, to very rare characters in the username."


^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$

Coutesy of Andy Smith at Regular Expression Library


If you need help validating with regular expressions, refer to the article "Validate With Regular Expressions" from Visual Studio Magazine.

thanks a lot... i'll try it later...=p

The drag and drop regular expression validator in VS.Net has an email validator built-in to it.

uhmmm... my language that im using is .vb

err... im doing windows application and not a web application(.aspx).....

thnx anyway... i guess the one that was post up there used for aspx....?

Private Sub MyValidatingCode()
' Confirm there is text in the control.
If TextBox1.Text.Length = 0 Then
Throw New Exception("Email address is a required field")
Else
If Not Regex.IsMatch(TextBox1.Text, "\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*") Then
Throw New Exception("E-mail address must be valid e-mail address format." + ControlChars.Cr + "For example 'someone@microsoft.com'")
End If
End If
End Sub

Private Sub textBox1_Validating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.Validating
Try
MyValidatingCode()

Catch ex As Exception
' Cancel the event and select the text to be corrected by the user.
e.Cancel = True
TextBox1.Select(0, TextBox1.Text.Length)

' Set the ErrorProvider error with the text to display.
Me.ErrorProvider1.SetError(TextBox1, ex.Message)
End Try
End Sub

Private Sub textBox1_Validated(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.Validated
' If all conditions have been met, clear the error provider of errors.
ErrorProvider1.SetError(TextBox1, "")
End Sub

can somebody tell me how to use builtin email validator ???