Songhay Studio: more, slightly-better, flippant remarks about .NET validation…
My previous breakthrough note about validation in .NET was written under the influence of the client-side need to implement INotifyDataErrorInfo without really paying proper respect for System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Validator. I had to pay my respects eventually.
Here’s my big, respectful, swaggering, flippant remark about .NET validation: a ValidationContext is needed to pass to Validator.TryValidate*() methods to yield IEnumerable<ValidationResult>. This flippant remark reveals intent. I attempted to express this intent in my new ValidationContextExtensions class:
The ToValidationResults() extension methods (that yield IEnumerable<ValidationResult>) should—I repeat should—work with INotifyDataErrorInfo.GetErrors() (which works fine with IEnumerable<string>). Once I get a bit of time to verify this, it will confirm that my new ValidationContextExtensions class is the final piece of my Validation puzzle that works with .NET Data Annotations on the server side as well as the Client side.
I placed this new class in my Core library instead of my Data Access library because this is devoted to Model (or View Model) validation in memory, having nothing to do with the access of data across a boundary.