blog.dmbcllc.com There are controls in the .NET framework that can not be wired to the standard validation controls. The checkbox control is one example. You can’t use the requiredfieldvalidator because it has a value. It’s either true or false. And you can’t provide a regularexpressionvalidator or one of the others because it is a boolean value. So, if I want to make sure a check box is checked before the user continues, for example. And, I want to make sure that the error message shows up in the error summary control like every other error, how do I do that?
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Thank you. Very helpful!
You shouldn’t be using the “ControlToValidate” property. It isn’t needed and it WILL cause an error if you do. This was covered in the video
.Net FAIL
Control ‘CheckBox27’ referenced by the ControlToValidate property of ‘CustomValidator1’ cannot be validated.
great tutorial, thanks
Do you have any examples of validating checkboxlists using a custom validator and vb?
thank u so much..great post
Excellent
Thanks!
Gracias!
from Argentina.
thank you
Thank you very much for the information, but why wouldn’t you just use:
args.IsValid = Checkbox1.Checked
Seems much simpler.
Anyway, thanks again.
Very nice
thank you!