Data Annotation Ranges of UK Datetime fields

Question

I want to use Data Annotations to validate DateTime fields, but I'm running into problems. According to documentation on MSDN, the following should do the job

[Range(typeof(DateTime), "1/2/2004", "3/4/2004",
    ErrorMessage = "Value for {0} must be between {1} and {2}")]

However, this marks any date I enter as invalid!

At first I thought it was not picking up UK dates (when I tried 26/2/2004) but I can't even get it to use dates such as 2/2/2004.

I'm using the dataannotations within MVC2, and using the MicrosoftAjax framework for clientside validation.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Answer 1

As far as i know the RangeAttribute can only validate number on client side, you'll have to write a custom javascript validator for this to work...

check out http://haacked.com/archive/2009/11/19/aspnetmvc2-custom-validation.aspx for an example on how to do this.