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How to Point CompareValidator’s ControlToCompare Attribute at a HiddenField

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

If you point the ControlToCompare attribute of the CompareValidator at a HiddenField you’ll get an error that looks something like this:
Control ‘hiddenBalance’ referenced by the ControlToCompare property of ‘CompareValidator1′ cannot be validated.

With a small amount of “googling” I found two useful articles:

Validating against the value in a hidden input
MS KB Article 310082

Between these two article [...]

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