Validating edit control

Well, sometimes a good structured and thought out If statement can suffice, but it can become quite long and cumbersome in the future. By using Regular Expressions this way, you can reduce the chances of getting errors at erratic times. This sub checks the email's format and if it thinks that it matches, it returns True and vice versa.

Also, the more tests you are performing, the slower your app might become. For more information regarding Regular Expressions, you are welcome to look at these two MSDN articles: Because it is always easy to learn by doing things practically, you will be creating an app that makes use of Regular Expressions to determine valid input. NET application and design the form to resemble Figure 1. Obviously this only works for the formatting of the email.

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While the default editing and inserting interfaces for the Bound Field and Check Box Field can be helpful, the interface lacks any sort of validation.

Scott Mitchell March 2007 Summary: This is the Visual C# tutorial.

(Switch to the Visual Basic tutorial.) In this tutorial, we'll see how easy it is to add validation controls to the Edit Item Template and Insert Item Template of a data Web control, to provide a more foolproof user interface.

Sometimes people are just trying to be funny, or they are literally trying to break your program. If the data is indeed only alphabetic letters (no symbols, no numbers or any other punctuation characters) the test succeeds and stores True inside the Name Valid variable. This is because it becomes more legible than just a normal set of numbers.

You could say that a program's testers are supposed to do this; yes, they should - nobody else should. If not, if there is even just one unallowed character that is not supposed to be there, the Match method will return False. Instead of you having to loop through each character to determine what that character is, you simply need the correct Regular Expression pattern. Clear() Surname Valid = False Else Surname Valid = True End If End Sub It is basically the exact same code for the Name box, but I just included the capability to comprehend a space character as well. People expect to enter a phone number in a format similar to this: ###-###-####.