PartialView and unobtrusive client validation not working

Question

I\'m currently using ASP.NET MVC3 RC and I\'m using the unobtrusive JQuery validations as described by Brad Wilson on his blog. It works great but when I send my form (in Aj

Answer 1

I finally make it worked. This is how :

HtmlHelper helper = GetHelper();
MvcHtmlString partialView = helper.Partial("myView" , model);
var result = new { success = ModelState.IsValid, html = partialView.ToString() };
return Json(result);

There's the helper functions:

protected HtmlHelper GetHelper()
{
    return GetHelper(string.Empty);
}
protected HtmlHelper GetHelper(string formID)
{
    HtmlHelper helper = new HtmlHelper(getViewContext(formID), new ViewPage { ViewData = this.ViewData });
    helper.EnableClientValidation(isClientValidationEnabled());
    helper.EnableUnobtrusiveJavaScript(isUnobtrusiveJavascriptEnabled());
    return helper;
}
private ViewContext getViewContext(string formID)
{
    var vc = new ViewContext(this.ControllerContext, new WebFormView(this.ControllerContext, "~/Views/Home/Index.aspx"), this.ViewData, new TempDataDictionary(), new System.IO.StringWriter());
    vc.UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled = isUnobtrusiveJavascriptEnabled();
    vc.ClientValidationEnabled = isClientValidationEnabled();
    vc.FormContext = new FormContext { FormId = formID };
    return vc;
}

I'm not sure it's the best way to do it but it worked for me. Let's hope the ASP.NET MVC team would provide an easier way to render a view as a string.

Thanks