Removing Required Attribute from Class but MVC3 still won't post the form without a value in the text box

Question

I have a class. At one point, I had set the properties of the class to [Required] using System.ComponentModel....

Okay, then I realized this was not needed. I have removed the required property but when I try to submit the form to an ActionResult the form does NOT post and still is trying to enforce the TextBoxFor(theModelProperty) to be populated.

I have deleted the "obj" folder, the "bin" folder, and also "Cleaned" the solutions. Still NO resolution.

I don't want to do a stupid workaround, I would like to do things correctly. Any idea why this occurs?

Hjerpe

Answer 1

You have two options:

1. Set property as nullable,
2. Turn off required attribute for value types (see this answer)

Bakken

Hey, thanks very much. That worked perfectly. Can you help me out with the following? :-) link – Hjerpe

Answer 2

If you have value type properties. Client validation will always generate required validations. If you don't want required validation for value types make them nullable.

Farfetched