The IsValidEmail method then calls the Regex.IsMatch(String, String) method to verify that the address conforms to a regular expression pattern.

using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public class RegexUtilities
{
   bool invalid = false;

   public bool IsValidEmail(string strIn)
   {
       invalid = false;
       if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(strIn))
          return false;

       // Use IdnMapping class to convert Unicode domain names.
       strIn = Regex.Replace(strIn, @"(@)(.+)$", this.DomainMapper);
       if (invalid)
          return false;

       // Return true if strIn is in valid e-mail format.
       return Regex.IsMatch(strIn,
              @"^(?("")(""[^""]+?""@)|(([0-9a-z]((\.(?!\.))|[-!#\$%&'\*\+/=\?\^`\{\}\|~\w])*)(?<=[0-9a-z])@))" +
              @"(?(\[)(\[(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\])|(([0-9a-z][-\w]*[0-9a-z]*\.)+[a-z0-9]{2,17}))$",
              RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
   }

   private string DomainMapper(Match match)
   {
      // IdnMapping class with default property values.
      IdnMapping idn = new IdnMapping();

      string domainName = match.Groups[2].Value;
      try {
         domainName = idn.GetAscii(domainName);
      }
      catch (ArgumentException) {
         invalid = true;     
      }     
      return match.Groups[1].Value + domainName;
   }
}