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A sample on ASP.NET MVC Model Validation using DataAnnotations and ModelValidators

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3 Jul 2011CPOL5 min read 92.1K   3.9K   28  
This article gives information to the reader on how flexible ASP.NET MVC validation framework is for complex validations on the form, also explains little bit on how ModelMetadata is created internally using provider model.
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