Silverlight 4 Textbox validation only after change

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Im developing a solution in Silverlight 4 with RIA Services. I am using data annotations on my entity to describe validation. I can see these are reflected on the client side code after building. I have a child window which has textboxes bound to a single entity record for editing. The data annotation i have on all the textboxes is the annotation but this does not ever fire until a user has editted a textbox first, left the textbox, re-entered the textbox and then deletes the content. This has no use if i am trying to force someone to fill in a textbox as they may skip straight over the textbox with the required data annotation.

Am i missing something simple here?

Thanks in advance

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silverlightvalidationsilverlight-4.0wcf-ria-servicesdata-annotations
When should it fire, then? If you want to force someone to fill textboxes, you can check whether the object is valid after the button is pressed. – vortexwolf
How do you test it? On my submit i am testing if the child window Entity.HasValidationErrors which returns false which i would expect to return true when a RequiredField is not populated. – Oly
You should call validation methods explicitly. There are 2 of them: Validator.TryValidateObject and Validator.ValidateProperty. Also set the ValidatesOnExceptions property to true at binding. – vortexwolf

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I have been using this very effective solution without any issues in both SL3, 4 and 5, thanks to Thomas Claudius Huber: http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/blog/2009/07/17/here-it-is-the-updatesourcetrigger-for-propertychanged-in-silverlight/