Comments by ankkor (Top 4 by date)

Thanks for the reply. You'd think at this point in the development arena that certain basic functionality would be more automatic and standardized and not demand the writing of code but not so much. Each developer is still left with the time-consuming task of working out the details of data validation. And the approach varies depending on use of TextBox or MaskedTextBox or Grid or something else. So I've been looking at some kind of Validation class that could fit to cover the possibilities. Quite challenging.

Thank you for the reply.

I should try to be more specific about my challenge. I understand about the various controls and I've done some things with various controls along with MaskedTextBox and its ValidationType.

Ideally I'd like to find "one" place (dataset, DB Table, DB column, DataBindings, Parse, etc.) where custom validation can be developed and then implemented regardless of the control used... So what I'm really asking is more like this.....

DataBindings allows me to provide alternative Parse/Format methods which (as I understand it) can take care of any validation. MaskedTextBox has ValidationType but other controls don't have it. A DataGridView is provided a DataSource but I don't know if DataBindings (for columns) applies to it the way it applies to TextBox, ComboBox, etc.

It's not consistent. Ideally I want to define validation for a table's column only once and then implemented regardless of whether the final control is a grid, a textbox, a masked textbox, etc.

Where would that one location be or does such a thing exist today?

If only it was clear to me then I wouldn't be asking the question. What part of my question is the answer you are referring to please? Thank you for your help.