Passing state of WPF ValidationRule to View Model in MVVM

Question

I am stuck in a seemingly common requirement. I have a WPF Prism (for MVVM) application. My model implements the IDataErrorInfo for validation. The

Answer 1

If you provide a custom ValidationRule implementation you can store the value it received, as well as storing the last result. PseudoCode:

public class IsInteger : ValidationRule
{
  private int parsedValue;

  public IsInteger() { }

  public string LastValue{ get; private set; }

  public bool LastParseSuccesfull{ get; private set; }

  public int ParsedValue{ get{ return parsedValue; } }

  public override ValidationResult Validate( object value, CultureInfo cultureInfo )
  {
    LastValue = (string) value;
    LastParseSuccesfull = Int32.TryParse( LastValue, cultureInfo, ref parsedValue );
    return new ValidationResult( LastParseSuccesfull, LastParseSuccesfull ? "not a valid number" : null );
  }
}