Is the built-in validation useless or is it just me?

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Henke

Suppose you have a form with some texboxes and a save button. Alla textboxes
must contain some text before saving the "record" is possible. I try to
solve this by using the ErrorProvider control. Everything works just fine if
the user set the focus on a textbox and then trying to leave it, but it is
still possible to press the save button if no of the textboxes ever have had
focus.
How can I prevent the user from trying to save the record right after the
form has been displayed and the user havn't set focus to any of the
textboxes?

Thanks!
/Henke
 
* "Henke said:
Suppose you have a form with some texboxes and a save button. Alla textboxes
must contain some text before saving the "record" is possible. I try to
solve this by using the ErrorProvider control. Everything works just fine if
the user set the focus on a textbox and then trying to leave it, but it is
still possible to press the save button if no of the textboxes ever have had
focus.
How can I prevent the user from trying to save the record right after the
form has been displayed and the user havn't set focus to any of the
textboxes?
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You may want to call the form's 'Validate' method.
 
I tried calling the Validate-method but no of my Validating or Validated
event handler gets called. My controls are placed on a user control that is
placed on a form.
Any ideas?

/Henke
 
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