Partial views inside my asp.net mvc will ignore all the model data annotations - asp.net

Question

I have the following action method which render the following partial view:-
public ActionResult CreateVMNetwork(int vmid)
{
AssignIps vmips = new AssignIps()
{
TechnologyIP = new TechnologyIP() { TechnologyID = vmid},
IsTMSIPUnique = true,
IsTMSMACUnique = true
};
return PartialView("_CreateNetworkInfo",vmips);
}
The partial view is :-
model TMS.ViewModels.AssignIps
#if (this.ViewContext.FormContext == null)
{
this.ViewContext.FormContext = new FormContext();
}
#using (Ajax.BeginForm("CreateVMNetwork", "VirtualMachine", new AjaxOptions
{
InsertionMode = InsertionMode.InsertAfter,
UpdateTargetId = "networktable",
LoadingElementId = "loadingimag",
HttpMethod= "POST",
OnSuccess="submitform"
}))
{
#Html.ValidationSummary(true)
#Html.HiddenFor(model=>model.TechnologyIP.TechnologyID)
#Html.AntiForgeryToken()
<div>
<span class="f">IP Address</span>
#Html.EditorFor(model => model.TechnologyIP.IPAddress)
#Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.TechnologyIP.IPAddress)
<input type="CheckBox" name="IsTMSIPUnique" value="true" #(Html.Raw(Model.IsTMSMACUnique ? "checked=\"checked\"" : "")) /> IP Unique. |
<span class="f"> MAC Address</span>
#Html.EditorFor(model => model.TechnologyIP.MACAddress)
#Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.TechnologyIP.MACAddress)
<input type="CheckBox" name="IsTMSMACUnique" value="true" #(Html.Raw(Model.IsTMSMACUnique ? "checked=\"checked\"" : "")) /> MAC Unique.
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Save" class="btn btn-primary"/>
}
#section Scripts {
#Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
}
but all the data annotation on the view model will not fire on the partial view , the AssignIps view model class is :-
namespace TMS.ViewModels
{
public class AssignIps
{
public TechnologyIP TechnologyIP { get; set; }
public bool IsTMSIPUnique { get; set; }
public bool IsTMSMACUnique { get; set; }
}
}
and he TechnologyIP model class is :-
namespace TMS.Models
{
[MetadataType(typeof(TechnologyIP_Validation))]
public partial class TechnologyIP
{}}
namespace TMS.Models
{
public class TechnologyIP_Validation
{
[Required]
public string IPAddress { get; set; }
but the [Required] data annotation on the TechnologyIP model, will not fire on the partial view,, can anyone adovce please?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Sections defined in your layout view don't get populated when using PartialViewResult, so the unobtrusive validation scripts are not being added.
You can test this by creating an action on your controller that just returns a partial view, and then call this via $.get() (using jQuery, obviously). If you use console.log(), you can inspect the result in Firebug. You could also use something like Fiddler; regardless, if you look at the HTML returned you will not see the script references anywhere.

Answer 2

Exactly, a wrong practice is to have:
#section Scripts {
#Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
}
in the partial view, try to do it just putting
#Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
and it should work!