How to validate GUID is a GUID

See if these helps :-

1. Guid.Parse - Docs

Guid guidResult = Guid.Parse(inputString)

2. Guid.TryParse - Docs

bool isValid = Guid.TryParse(inputString, out guidOutput)

When I'm just testing a string to see if it is a GUID, I don't really want to create a Guid object that I don't need. So...

public static class GuidEx{    public static bool IsGuid(string value)    {        Guid x;        return Guid.TryParse(value, out x);    }}

And here's how you use it:

string testMe = "not a guid";if (GuidEx.IsGuid(testMe)){...}

A GUID is a 16-byte (128-bit) number, typically represented by a 32-character hexadecimal string. A GUID (in hex form) need not contain any alpha characters, though by chance it probably would. If you are targeting a GUID in hex form, you can check that the string is 32-characters long (after stripping dashes and curly brackets) and has only letters A-F and numbers.

There is certain style of presenting GUIDs (dash-placement) and regular expressions can be used to check for this, e.g.,

@"^(\{{0,1}([0-9a-fA-F]){8}-([0-9a-fA-F]){4}-([0-9a-fA-F]){4}-([0-9a-fA-F]){4}-([0-9a-fA-F]){12}\}{0,1})$"

from http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/view8AD536EF-BC0D-427F-9F15-3A1BC663848E.htm. That said, it should be emphasized that the GUID really is a 128-bit number and could be represented in a number of different ways.