I've seen some great info about how to validate controls in WPF, but they all require that the control is bound. The validation infrastructure seems to be part of databinding, namely the ValidationRules of the Binding class and the ErrorTemplate of Validation (which works with Binding's ValidationRules).

I have been wondering, however, if WPF provides validation support for controls which are not bound to a data source. Is this available? If so, please point me to an article or page in the SDK which demostrates it. If not, why not? Is it expected that controls will always be bound?

Thanks for any information.

Hi Josh,

Unfortunately there is no Validation support outside of data binding scenarios in V1. We've been discussing this internally, and I completely agree with you, just like WinForms, Avalon should provide validation for non data bound scenarios. This is already listed as part of our VNext planning discussions, so hopefully you will see that in a future version of Avalon.

Thanks,

Bea