Ugh, I hate it when people try to guess at which characters are valid. Besides being completely non-portable (always thinking about Mono), both of the earlier comments missed more 25 invalid characters.
foreach (var c in Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars())
{
fileName = fileName.Replace(c, '-');
}
Or in VB:
'Clean just a filename
Dim filename As String = "salmnas dlajhdla kjha;dmas'lkasn"
For Each c In IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars
filename = filename.Replace(c, "")
Next
'See also IO.Path.GetInvalidPathChars