Range Data Annotation Attribute in MVC

Introduction

In this blog we will see how range data annotation attribute works in MVC.

Step 1: Create asp.net web application

Choose mvc template

Setup entity framework

 

Employee.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace RangeAttributeDataAnnotationMVC.Models
{
    [MetadataType(typeof(EmployeeMetaData))]
    public partial  class Employee
    {
    }

    public  class EmployeeMetaData
    {

        [Range(18, 56, ErrorMessage="Age Must be between 18 to 56")]
        public string Age { get; set; }
    }
}

Output of the application looks like this

Summary

In this blog we have seen how range data annotation works in MVC. Happy coding.