Does the Validation Application Block in Entlib 5.0 support client-side validation?

Question

VAB used to be just server-side bur does the new version of Entlib allow client-side validation for VAB?

Answer 1

VAB is for the server-side only. The architecture of the block is intended to be used more in a Business Logic layer or Data layer and can be used by Winform applications as well as ASP.NET apps.

Answer 2

You can use VAB on the client-side as well. Take a look at the "User Interface Validation Integration" section at the end of the this chapter.

Also, we are building support for client-side validation in Silverlight as you can see from this top-rated story on our backlog.