Chapter 6. Validation
Data integrity is a very important part of developing a software product. Users of software are human beings and, being such, are universally fallible. Whenever requiring input from a user—especially free-text input—the values that are supplied should be treated with extreme suspicion. When it comes to user input, data lives in a totalitarian state: it is all guilty until proven innocent and must be vigorously validated before being trusted.
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Much of this chapter is aimed at WPF. However, the "Validation In Silverlight" sectiondeals with Silverlight directly, indicating which parts are common and what can be leveraged specifically in Silverlight. With the release of Silverlight 4, validation is much improved and the gap ...
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