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In my ASP.NET MVC application, I have metadata based model defined in database. I have a custom object defining the metadata of the data and uses dataset for DTO. To display this, I am planning to write a custom ModelMetadataProvider and ModelValidatorProvider.

Is this the right approach?

Any pointers on custom ModelMetadataProvider and ModelValidatorProvider?

Avinash Tiwari
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  • This post http://prideparrot.com/blog/archive/2012/9/creating_custom_modelvalidatorprovider tells how to create a custom modelvalidatorprovider when they have the validation rule setup in xml file or database. I hope this will help someone visiting this thread. – VJAI Sep 25 '12 at 06:16

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The last day or so I was trying to figure out the same. It seems that writing a custom ModelMetadataProvider and ModelValidatorProvider is the way to go if you have metadata / validation configuration stored on database, some file or wherever.

I found this a great starting point.

Did you in the meantime already hacked together a solution? HTH,

Manu.

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