Question

What is the best practice for validating my model for different actions, for example, different validation rules for creating and deleting?

Thanks!

Clarification: I think this needs some clarification because the answers don’t seem to be addressing the question.

For example,

Create Person
Validates that has name, age and email is not in use
Delete Person
Validates that the Person isn’t a Parent. Business logic dictates that Parents can’t be eliminated

How do I have these two different validation scenarios?

Answer 1

As i understand you want more control on your validation rules. You can manually add validation rules as described here: MVC 2.0 Client validation exposed This gives you full control on how to organize you validation, which rule add on which action, etc.