Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Configuring our application to use unobtrusive validation

This new feature will allow us to configure our validator controls for the use of unobtrusive client validation logic in a very simple way. A very significant benefit of doing this is the reduction of the amount of JavaScript rendered in the page, making it substantially smaller.

Note that unobtrusive means not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable, which is generally a good practice for JavaScript, meaning that there is a separation of responsibility between the web page (presentation) and its behavior.

Getting ready

In order to use this recipe you should have Visual Studio 2012. We will use this as well as the application generated from our previous recipe.

How to do it...

Here we will create ...