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Where/when should i validate my data when using EF and POCOs?

I started a project to see what EF 4 can do with POCOs. I created a db and a custom POCO. Now i want to validate my data. For this i'm using the Enterprise Library Validation Block 5. I have no problem including the validation in my POCOs through attributes and using it with Entity Framework but this means that my POCOs wouldn't be POCO...

How to maintain a Unity container reference in WCF

I'm configuring validation application block from Enterprise Library 5 to use validation rules from the web.config file over a WCF call. The problem is as new calls to the WCF service occur, validation application block is spending a considerable amount of time reading the validation configuration before validating. So my first call to...

How can you get the first validation error on a property only using Validation Application Block?

If I have two validators, a NotNullValidator and a StringLengthValidator, is there a way to get only a Null Validation Error and not both. For example: public class Test { [NotNullValidator(MessageTemplate="Name is required"), StringLengthValidator(1,50, MessageTemplate="Name must be between 1 and 50 characters")] public str...