Exceptions are meant to represent exceptional states. The data is always expected to be valid and there is no recovery? .Parse The data may be invalid and the

Exceptions are meant to represent exceptional states. The data is always expected to be valid and there is no recovery? .Parse The data may be invalid and the implementation can handle it? .TryParse This is a very common pattern and adopted for reasons besides the cost of exceptions. Though in this case it is Uri.TryCreate instead.