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Asked: 2026-05-11T11:25:57+00:00

I’m trying to validate a basic form, can i not use the standard validation

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I’m trying to validate a basic form, can i not use the standard validation controls? Everywhere i’m looking seems to try and use something like the below

<%= Html.ValidationSummary() %>  <% using (Html.BeginForm()) {%>      <fieldset class='fields'>         <legend>Create New Contact</legend>         <p>             <label for='task'>Task Name:</label>             <%= Html.TextBox('task') %>             <%= Html.ValidationMessage('task', '*') %>         </p>         <p class='submit'>             <input type='submit' value='Create' />         </p>     </fieldset>  <% } %>

I thought id be able to use the standard components? Any pointers would be brilliant!

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  1. ASP.NET MVC uses pretty-much a completely different philosophy to regular ASP.NET; as such, with a few minor exceptions, almost no ASP.NET controls (etc) will work in ASP.NET MVC. Apart from anything else, the point in the page life-cycle where they usually do something simply doesn’t exist.

    There are ways of doing this, for example in jQuery validation plug-in, or by using IDataErrorInfo, etc.

    Note that if you do validation at the client you must still do it (separately) at the server. Those pesky browsers can’t be trusted ;-p

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