Distinguishing between two forms on a single page for validation

[Maziar Aflatoun]

Hi,

I have two sections on one .aspx page. One is a datagrid which lists the
current users allowing you to edit them as well and on the bottom of my page
I have 'Add a new user' section with two textboxes (Username and password).
I know how to apply asp:requiredfieldvalidator to my textboxes for both the
datagrid and the insert new user section. Now, how do I distinguish between
the two? since sometimes you click update to update the datagrid and
sometimes you click on insert new to add a new user and using for ex.

if (!Page.IsValid)
{
lblMsg.Text = "* = Required Field";
}

checks the all the textboxes.

Thank you
Maz.

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

It's easy to do in .NET 2.0, but that doesn't come out until next year :-/
Until then you'll have to do some custom validation.
The easiest way is to turn off the client side validation and just handle it
in your server side code.

 

[Greg Burns]

Or purchase Peter's VAM controls.

http://www.peterblum.com/VAM/Home.aspx

Greg