ASP.NET MVC Data Annotations Validation ErrorMessageResourceType

Question

When using Data Annotations Valition, everything works fine until I try to use resources.

Here's the error I get: The name 'ErrorMessageResourceType' does not exist in the current context.

And the code I used:

using System.ComponentModel;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using Microsoft.Web.Mvc;


namespace Project.Models  
{  
    [MetadataType(typeof(LanguageMetaData))]
    public partial class Language
    {
    }

    public class LanguageMetaData
    {
        [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType(typeof(Resources.Errors)), ErrorMessageResourceName = "IdRequired")]
        public object Id { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType(typeof(Resources.Errors)), ErrorMessageResourceName = "NameRequired")]
        public object Name { get; set; }

        public object Flag { get; set; }
        public object IsDefault { get; set; }
    }

}

I can't find anything wrong with this. Can someone more experienced help me with what's wrong?

Thank you!

Answer 1

It has to be "ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Errors)" instead of "ErrorMessageResourceType(typeof(Resources.Errors))"

This was a small big damn stupid mistake :D

Hope this helps anyone who had the same problem!

Answer 2

hi! I have same problem.. initially I did it right:

[Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(SignIn), ErrorMessageResourceName = "requiredPassword")] public string Password { get; set; }

please advice!!