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.