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Form.AutoValidate Property

Visual Studio 2010

This member overrides ContainerControl.AutoValidate, and more complete documentation might be available in that topic.

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether controls in this container will be automatically validated when the focus changes.

Namespace:  System.Windows.Forms
Assembly:  System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)

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[BrowsableAttribute(true)]
public override AutoValidate AutoValidate { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: System.Windows.Forms.AutoValidate
An AutoValidate enumerated value that indicates whether contained controls are implicitly validated on focus change. The default is Inherit.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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