Data Validation in Windows Store App

Introduction

Today our article is about data validation in Metro style applications. We hope you have learned much more about validation in ASP.Net applications, where we can use direct server validation controls like Range Validator, Required Field Validator and so on. But in a Metro style application there are no such types of validation controls.

Validation is the process of ensuring the validity of data before applying an action to it. Here we will take a form which contains TextBoxes for UserName, Email ID and age. On button click, we will check all TextBoxes value and show a message if the value is not valid.

Step 1 : First of all you will create a new Metro style application. Let us see the description with images of how you will create it.

Open Visual Studio 2011
File -> New -> Project
Choose Template -> Visual C# -> Metro style application
Rename the application

Step 2 : In the Solution Explorer there are two files that we will primarily work with; BlankPage.xaml and BlankPage.xaml.cs files.

Step 3 : The BlankPage.xaml file is as in the following code:

Code :

<Page
x:Class="DataValidation.BlankPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="using:DataValidation"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="0.112*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.081*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.058*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.054*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.052*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.056*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.056*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.529*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.333*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.022*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.312*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.333*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.Background>
<LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
<GradientStop Color="Blue" Offset="1"/>
<GradientStop Color="Green"/>
</LinearGradientBrush>
</Grid.Background>
<TextBlock Text="User Name" FontSize="20" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="0" Grid.Row="2" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="namvalidate" FontSize="20" Foreground="Red" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="0" Grid.Column="3" Grid.Row="2" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Visibility="Collapsed"/>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Right" FontSize="20" Margin="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" Grid.Row="3" Text="Email ID" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="emailvalidate" FontSize="20" Foreground="Red" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="0" Grid.Column="3" Grid.Row="3" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Visibility="Collapsed"/>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Right" FontSize="20" Margin="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" Grid.Row="4" Text="word" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0" FontSize="20" VerticalAlignment="Center" Grid.Row="5" Text="Age" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="agevalidate" FontSize="20" Foreground="Red" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="0" Grid.Column="3" Grid.Row="5" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Visibility="Collapsed"/>
<TextBox x:Name="txtUserName" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="0" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="2" d:LayoutOverrides="Height" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<TextBox.Text>
<Binding Mode="TwoWay" Path="UserName" />
</TextBox.Text>
</TextBox>
<TextBox x:Name="txtEmailID" Margin="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="3" TextWrapping="Wrap">
<TextBox.Text>
<Binding Mode="TwoWay" Path="EmailID" />
</TextBox.Text>
</TextBox>
<wordBox x:Name="txtConf" Margin="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="4">
<wordBox.word>
<Binding Mode="TwoWay" Path="word" />
</wordBox.word>
</wordBox>
<TextBox x:Name="txtAge" Margin="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="5" TextWrapping="Wrap">
<TextBox.Text>
<Binding Mode="TwoWay" Path="Age" />
</TextBox.Text>
</TextBox>
<Button Click="Button_Click_1" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="6" Content="Save Data" Background="Red" HorizontalAlignment="Center"></Button>
</Grid>
</Page>

Step 4 : The BlankPage.xaml.cs file is as in the following code:

Code :

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.IO;

using System.Linq;

using Windows.Foundation;

using Windows.Foundation.Collections;

using Windows.UI.Xaml;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Data;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Input;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;

namespace DataValidation

{

public sealed partial class BlankPage : Page

{

public BlankPage()

{

this.InitializeComponent();

}

protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)

{

}

#region UserName

private string _UserName;

public string UserName

{

get { return _UserName; }

set

{

_UserName = value;

}

#endregion

#region EmailID

private string _EmailID;

public string EmailID

{

get { return _EmailID; }

set

{

_EmailID = value;

}

#endregion

#region word

private string _word;

public string word

{

get { return _word; }

set { _word = value; }

}

#endregion

#region Age

private string _Age;

public string Age

{

get { return _Age; }

set

{

_Age = value;

}

#endregion

private void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

{

if (txtUserName.Text.Length < 6)

{

namvalidate.Visibility = Windows.UI.Xaml.Visibility.Visible;

namvalidate.Text = "User Name should contain atleast 6 chars";

}

if (!txtEmailID.Text.Contains("@") || !txtEmailID.Text.Contains("."))

{

emailvalidate.Visibility = Windows.UI.Xaml.Visibility.Visible;

emailvalidate.Text = "Invalid EmailID";

}

if (Convert.ToInt32(txtAge.Text) < 18 || Convert.ToInt32(txtAge.Text) > 40)

{

agevalidate.Visibility = Windows.UI.Xaml.Visibility.Visible;

agevalidate.Text = "Age should be range in 18 ~ 40";

}

Step 5 : After running this code the output will look like this:

Enter the data into the TextBoxes and click on the button.