---

Search posts under ASP.NET MVC:

---

Getting EntityValidationErrors in ASP.NET MVC

How to get error messages from EntityValidationErrors?

Sometimes, we see following error message while working with Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC.

Validation failed for one or more entities. See 'EntityValidationErrors' property for more details.

To get error messages from EntityValidationErrors, we can loop through them that is nothing but collection of DbEntityValidationResult and then each DbEntityValidationResult object has ValidationErrors property that actually gives the error message.

public ActionResult ReceiveParameters(PersonalDetails pd)
        {
            try
            {
                db.PersonalDetails.Add(pd);
                db.SaveChanges();
            }
            catch (DbEntityValidationException ee)
            {
                foreach (var error in ee.EntityValidationErrors)
                {
                    foreach(var thisError in error.ValidationErrors)
                    {
                        var errorMessage = thisError.ErrorMessage;
                    }                    
                }
            }
            return View();
        }

Notice in the above code snippet, when an error occurs in the try block, it throws DbEntityValidationException error because all the code that is written in the try block is Entity Framework code. We are getting the EntityValidationErrors property of the error object (ee) and interating through each DbEntityValidationResult(error in first foreach loop) that in iterm gives collection of DbValidationError collection. Each DbValidationError object (thisError) has ErrorMessage property that shows the actual error occured.