Enterprise Library 4.1 - October 2008
Design of the Validation Application Block
The Validation Application Block is designed to do the following:
- Encapsulate the logic used to perform the most common validation tasks into minimal application code.
- Relieve developers of the requirement to write duplicate code and custom code for common validation tasks.
- Allow validation rules to be changed after the application has been deployed, and ensure that changes happen simultaneously and consistently.
Design Highlights
Figure 1 illustrates the interrelationships between the key classes in the Validation Application Block.
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Figure 1: Diagram of Validation Application Block
The client code can call the Validation façade, which allows you to create a validator and validate an object with a single line of code. Alternatively, it can call the ValidationFactory class to create a validator and then call the Validate method on the Validator class to perform the check.