ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed

Chapter 8. Validating Form Data

In This Chapter

• Understanding Model State

• Understanding the Validation Helpers

• Styling Validation Error Messages

• Prebinding and Postbinding Validation

• Validating with a Service Layer

• Validating with the IDataErrorInfo Interface

• Testing Validation

This chapter is devoted to the topic of performing validation in an ASP.NET MVC application. For example, you learn how to validate whether a user has entered a required value into an HTML form field.

Over the course of this chapter, we examine alternative approaches to validation. You learn how to perform validation in a service layer and how to perform validation using the IDateErrorInfo interface.

Finally, at the end of this chapter, you ...