All Validation Techniques in ASP.NET MVC

Authors and editors: Sergey Khalipsky, Aleksandr Sliborsky
In the first article (Validation Techniques Comparison) we just considered the most useful and the best techniques that could be used for validation implementation in ASP.NET MVC.
We don’t want to deprive you of a pleasure of doing all this by yourself, so we will just give you a direction and some samples of implementation and let you dig deeper .
So, today’s agenda is:

1. Manual validation in Model Binder and Controllers (client validation type 1 and server validation type 1)
2. DataAnnotations (client validation type 2, server validation type 2);
3. Custom Validation engine implementation (client validation type 1, server validation type 2);
4. Spring Validation Framework usage on a server, manual validation on a client (client validation type 1, server validation type 3)
5. Spring Validation Framework usage on a server, DataAnnotations + manual validation on a client (it’s a mix from several points from previous review);
6. xVal Validation Framework

Let’s start

Advanced validation techniques in ASP.NET MVC

Authors and editors: Khalipsky Sergey, Sliborsky Aleksandr

Introduction

When you start development using new technology or framework several questions are arisen: how does it support work with RDBS, how to implement UI better etc.
And, of course, – Validation.
There are several solutions on how to implement validation in the projects based on ASP.NET MVC. When our company first time faced with the ability to implement a solution based on this technology we made an analysis of all viable possibilities. This article and some upcoming articles are the results of those investigations. In this, first article we will consider more theoretical questions and just consider why we have chosen this or that approach in validation. In the next article we will consider implementation of different approaches.

SharePoint Security. Part 1. Introduction

When our company involved into SharePoint development as Security consultants or when we asked to improve legacy system we very often shocked by the level of security of that systems and by the implementation efforts applied to it. Sometimes it seems that all we are working in trust environment where everyone is a saint and there is no thefts, corruptions and other sins.
We prepared the series of articles which should help in security implementation and design in SharePoint portals. This is only the first one from this series.

ASP.NET MVC WebForms vs Spark View Engines. Part 2. Markup

In my previous article (ASP.NET MVC WebForms vs Spark View Engine. Part 1) I had started to describe the differences between standard ASP.NET MVC View Engine and spark. In this short article I will just show the differences between implementation of 3 equal pages.
So, less words, more code…

ASP.NET WebForms vs Spark View Engine. Part 1

Preamble

There is no "the best", "one fits all" engine, framework or something else. I didn't try to choose the best, I just tried to investigate the possibilities to have them in mind for line of the upcoming projects and to have a possibility to choose between them depending on the requirements.
Also, I’m not a guru in both engines, I had just made a surface comparison and appreciate any comments, fixes and additions!