Tuesday, April 5, 2011

ASP.NET MVC2 DataAnnotations not catching error

Can somebody help me to figure out why DataAnnotations will not work with my MVC2 project in VS 2008 SP1? Here's the situation..

I uninstalled VS2008 and MVC1, then reinstalled VS2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 and MVC2.

Now when I create a clean project as soon as it has to hit the DataAnnotations Dll (e.g. say when I go to Register.aspx it fails at the first "LabelFor" that it encounters.

I can overcome this by changing the "Copy Local" property of the dll to True but this then creates a conflict with the same dll in the Tests project.

If then I delete the test project and try agan, it runs but does not catch any validation failures.

I have gone right back to basics and followed the step by step ScottGu Datavalidation tutorial at : http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/15/asp-net-mvc-2-model-validation.aspx

And at the "Et viola" bit where we usually go "Whoa! cool!" I say "It never caught!".

Any Ideas?

From stackoverflow
  • A second re-install of MVC2 seemed to get rid of this problem

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