>Try Regular Expression.
>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex.aspx
>you can also search for RegEx Pattern on google

Thanks Simplicio, but I don't want a regular expression... that would be more for telling me how many numbers or special characters in a password. What I would really like is a class that tells me if a password is a word from the dictionary.