Uses of Datatype.EmailAddress in asp/.net/mvc

Question

I have a Account Model in which I am using Email Address as Username

public class RegisterModel
    {
        [Required]
        [Display(Name = \"Email Add         


        

Answer 1

Datatype.Emailaddress derives from DataTypeAttribute and adds client-side e-mail validation you also need to set <% Html.EnableClientValidation(); %> in your corresponding view.

Alternatively you could use the DataAnnotations library by using EmailAddress (This performs server side validation)

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations; 

    [Required]
    [EmailAddress]
    public String Email { get; set; }

This is the regex to validate Email address

[Required(ErrorMessage="Email is required")]
[RegularExpression(@"[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z] {2,4}",
public String Email {get; set;}

You can also create custom email validation Attribute.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/15/asp-net-mvc-2-model-validation.aspx