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ButtonFieldBase::ValidationGroup Property

Gets or sets the name of the group of validation controls to validate when a button in a ButtonFieldBase object is clicked.

Namespace:  System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

public:
virtual property String^ ValidationGroup {
	String^ get ();
	void set (String^ value);
}

Property Value

Type: System::String
The name of the validation group to validate when a button in a ButtonFieldBase is clicked. The default is an empty string (""), which indicates that the ValidationGroup property is not set.

Use the ValidationGroup property to specify the validation group to validate when a button in a ButtonFieldBase object is clicked. Only the validation controls in the specified validation group are validated.

NoteNote:

The CausesValidation property must be set to true for the ValidationGroup property to have an effect.

For more information on validation groups, see BaseValidator::ValidationGroup.

The value of this property is stored in view state.

The following code example demonstrates how to use the ValidationGroup property to specify that only a certain group of validation controls are validated when a button is clicked in the ButtonField object of a GridView control.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

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

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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