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prasadved@y...:



I have been able to create Customs Controls in ASP.NET. 

I need to validate all Controls within my Custom Control namespace with:



 <asp:RequiredFieldValidator>.



Please let me know how it can achieved or else is there another way out.



Thanks



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rm41@h...:



As a VB developer I'm constantly asking myself if it'll be best to focus 

on Win forms or Web forms development with the forthcoming release of 

Visual Studio (or if it'll matter at all if the dividing line becomes 

blurred). Rather than Web forms being able to offer Web or HTML controls 

according to the browser type, could you foresee a scenario where Win and 

Web applications are totally merged, maybe using one form type instead of 

two, with controls that either render as Win controls if the client is a 

Win machine or HTML if it isn't?  

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> prasadved@y...:

> 

> I have been able to create Customs Controls in ASP.NET. 

> I need to validate all Controls within my Custom Control 

> namespace with:

> 

>  <asp:RequiredFieldValidator>.

> 

> Please let me know how it can achieved or else is there 

> another way out.

> 

> Thanks





The validation controls only work on single controls at a time. You can't

get the validator to recurse through a controls children. It's a pretty cool

idea though.







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> rm41@h...:

> 

> As a VB developer I'm constantly asking myself if it'll be 

> best to focus 

> on Win forms or Web forms development with the forthcoming release of 

> Visual Studio (or if it'll matter at all if the dividing line becomes 

> blurred). Rather than Web forms being able to offer Web or 

> HTML controls 

> according to the browser type, could you foresee a scenario 

> where Win and 

> Web applications are totally merged, maybe using one form 

> type instead of 

> two, with controls that either render as Win controls if the 

> client is a 

> Win machine or HTML if it isn't?  





Interesting idea. A couple of years ago I was convinced (wrongly so) that

the next interface was going to be XML based, and even standard windows

applications would use this. The problem is the way programs are exectured,

but there's no reason why the architecture couldn't be built do to this. I

suppose the answer is that if you want functionality that works on both then

just use Web Forms.





Dave

On behalf of Dave Sussman (his network connection just died...):



The only way we can see is to handle all the validation yourself within 

your custom control using your own code, and then expose the IsValid 

propery so that it can be used with a RequiredFieldValidator. It's not 

possible to use one validation control to validate multiple controls - 

each one must have its own validator.