ASP.Net 2012 Unobtrusive Validation with jQuery

Question

I was playing with Visual Studio 2012 and I created an empty ASP.Net Web Application, when I tried to add the traditional validator controls to a n

Answer 1

This is the official Microsoft answer from the MS Connect forums. I am copying the relevant text below :-

When targeting .NET 4.5 Unobtrusive Validation is enabled by default. You need to have jQuery in your project and have something like this in Global.asax to register jQuery properly:

ScriptManager.ScriptResourceMapping.AddDefinition("jquery", 
    new ScriptResourceDefinition {
        Path = "~/scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min.js",
        DebugPath = "~/scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js",
        CdnPath = "http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.4.1.min.js",
        CdnDebugPath = "http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.4.1.js"
    });

Replacing the version of jQuery with the version you are using.

You can also disable this new feature in web.config by removing the following line: