Best way to create IPEndpoint from string

Question

Since IPEndpoint contains a ToString() method that outputs:

10.10.10.10:1010

There should also be

Answer 1

This is my take on the parsing of an IPEndPoint. Using the Uri class avoids having to handle the specifics of IPv4/6, and the presence or not of the port. You could can modify the default port for your application.

    public static bool TryParseEndPoint(string ipPort, out System.Net.IPEndPoint result)
    {
        result = null;

        string scheme = "iiiiiiiiiaigaig";
        GenericUriParserOptions options =
            GenericUriParserOptions.AllowEmptyAuthority |
            GenericUriParserOptions.NoQuery |
            GenericUriParserOptions.NoUserInfo |
            GenericUriParserOptions.NoFragment |
            GenericUriParserOptions.DontCompressPath |
            GenericUriParserOptions.DontConvertPathBackslashes |
            GenericUriParserOptions.DontUnescapePathDotsAndSlashes;
        UriParser.Register(new GenericUriParser(options), scheme, 1337);

        Uri parsedUri;
        if (!Uri.TryCreate(scheme + "://" + ipPort, UriKind.Absolute, out parsedUri))
            return false;
        System.Net.IPAddress parsedIP;
        if (!System.Net.IPAddress.TryParse(parsedUri.Host, out parsedIP))
            return false;

        result = new System.Net.IPEndPoint(parsedIP, parsedUri.Port);
        return true;
    }