John, "validation groups" is built into "Professional Validation And More"
(
http://www.peterblum.com/vam/home.aspx) along with many other tools that
Microsoft is not putting into ASP.NET 2.0 but are common validation issues.
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"john morales" <jmorales@NO_SPAM-gmail-R3M0VE_TH1S.com> wrote in message
news:. ..
> Hello Shaun,
>
> yes. thanks that would work.
>
>> can you turn off causesvalidation for the login button?
>>
>> "john morales" <jmorales@NO_SPAM-gmail-R3M0VE_TH1S.com> wrote in
>> message news:. ..
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>> I have a problem and i know there must be a solution for this as it
>>> is
>> such
>>
>>> a basic common practice in asp.net development.
>>>
>>> Scenario:
>>> i have many webforms in a site, most with two different custom
>>> controls,
>>> one is a login module, the other is a generic data entry module. When
>> there
>>
>>> are no validation controls on the page there is no problem. But when
>>> the the data entry module has validation controls, the login module
>>> triggers the data entry module's validation.
>>>
>>> Q: how can i get the login module not to trigger the validation? i
>>> found a few solutions that basically advise to turn off clientside
>>> validation
>>>
>> which
>>
>>> is not an option, as posting back just to return a validation error
>>>
>> message
>>
>>> is bad a user experience and the developer should be shot on site.
>>> Any
>>>
>> elegant
>>
>>> solutions?
>>>
>>> I know that asp.net 2 will have validation groups to fix this poor
>>> design flaw, but is there something that can be done now that will
>>> mimic
>>>
>> validation
>>
>>> groups. Or am i just stuck with capturing the current focused input
>>> and
>>>
>> setting
>>
>>> validation off/on accordingly.
>>>
>
>
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