Overall, I spent several hours working with VAM and found it
to be very well-documented and intuitive. The data entry controls provide a
much richer user experience than standard HTML form controls, and the
validation controls are leaps and bounds better than the ASP.NET 1.x validation
control suite. ASP.NET
2.0 addresses a few of the most glaring issues with the 1.x validators,
such as introducing validation groups, but doesn't come close to approaching
the flexibility and features provided by the VAM suite. In the future, I will
certainly use the VAM suite instead of the built-in validation controls, and
you may expect to see VAM controls soon in certain areas of AspAlliance.com.
If you do any data entry web form development, this suite of
controls is worthy of your attention (at least worth less than an hour to
download and play with the free trial). The per-server license price of $200
is very reasonable, and is certainly less than it would cost for any
reasonably-paid developer to build even one of these controls. As with Peter's Date Package, I'm very impressed
with this product from PeterBlum.com.
If you're looking for more information, check out the PeterBlum Message Board (Yahoo
Group).
Anand's Review of Peter's
Validation and More (older version) (2 October 2003)
Solving the Challenges of
ASP.NET Validation (1 August 2005)
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ASP.NET
Validation Controls QuickStarts Tutorial
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2.0 Validation Controls QuickStarts Tutorial
