What advantage has Fluent Validation vs the default .NET Data Annotations

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What advantage does the FluentValidation library have over the .NET System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations?

Does it offer more flexible validation as it is not annotated (static field validation) on the property like validating a property depending on another's property value?

possible duplicate of Fluent Validation vs. Data Annotations — wonea
– wonea, Commented Apr 9, 2014 at 11:57

STO · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-22 10:13:58Z

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I'm not sure about data annotations but we've used FluentValidation for validation part in business logic. And easy integrating with ASP.NET MVC is nice bonus :)

It supports a lot of built-in rules, error messages localization, using object data in error messages, custom validation methods, conditional validation - applying some rules if object data matches a condition, rule sets - apply named set of rules, validation of aggregated objects and collections - and property names would be compatible with ASP.NET MVC property names and so on.

answered Sep 22, 2012 at 10:13

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