Check for ModelState errors in posted FormCollection on different Controller

Question

I have a WebPage Controller that handles all my public side of things on the website.

I have an Enquiry table to insert details of information typed in a contact form.

On the contact page it posts to the WebPage Controller with the contact form information.

How do I check that the form collection validates against the expected Enquiry table? My model has DataAnnotations if that helps.

Thanks

UPDATE: I realised I can do a TryUpdateModel but to put the information into my object but how do I passback the validation information eg/they didn't type in their name

Answer 1

Have you checked out how Nerd Dinner does it? They extend the model with a validate method which checks values and build a validation errors collection that can then be passed back to the view to render.

It's quite a neat solution.

Check this out

And this

And this might help

Answer 2

I discovered that even though I do a TryUpdateModel on a different model it would get returned in the modelstate so I used a prefix and so validationsummary would pick it up