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MVVM light and Model Validation

I have been using the MVVM light toolkit for a project recently. It is a great toolkit but is missing a couple things and Laurent Bugnion does a good job trying to cover those holes. One of the things the toolkit does not support is Validation. The good news is there is a great CodePlex project out there call Fluent Validation that makes this pretty easy to add and really powerful. My objective was to add validation to my model so I could call “IsValid” on the model itself (similar to the MVC attribute approach). Fluent Validation has you create a new class file that holds you validation rules for a given model. This is the approach I took to enable each model to have an “IsValid” property and a “Errors” property that returns the validation errors. First I setup my ValidationFactory: public class ValidatorFactory : FluentValidation.ValidatorFactoryBase { public override FluentValidation.IValidator CreateInstance(Type validatorType) { return SimpleIoc.Default.G