Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

10.3. The Last Word

In this chapter, you learned how to use one of ASP.NET's most practical features: validation. You saw how ASP.NET combines server-side and client-side validation to ensure bulletproof security without sacrificing the usability of your web pages. You also looked at the types of validation provided by the various validation controls, and even brushed up on the powerful pattern-matching syntax used for regular expressions. Finally, you considered how to customize and extend the validation process to handle a few different scenarios.