I was using Chris Lively's snippet (selected answer) encapsulated in a bool function like Gishu's suggestion for a year or two. I used it to make sure certain query strings were only numeric before proceeding with further processing. I started getting some errant querystrings that the marked answer was not handling, specifically, whenever a comma was passed after a number like "3645," (returned true). This is the resulting mod:
static public bool IsNumeric(string s)
{
double myNum = 0;
if (Double.TryParse(s, out myNum))
{
if (s.Contains(",")) return false;
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}