Email model validation with DataAnnotations and DataType

Question

I have following model:

public class FormularModel
{
    [Required]
    public string Position { get; set; }
    [Required]
    [DataType(DataType.EmailAddre         


        

Answer 1

I have looked at the source code (reverse engineered by Reflector) and DataType variants are actually not even implemented! (This was for DateType.Date)

So it is not going to work.

I would personally use RegexValidation for email.

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For clarity, here is the implementation of IsValid in class DataTypeAttribute:

public override bool IsValid(object value)
{
    return true;
}