title: ASP.NET 2.0 - Validating nonvisible Controls on the same page?
body: <p>I have an application that uses RequiredFieldValidator controls with a ValidationSummary and once a "Finish" button is clicked all the fields are validated. This page has several different parts of it that are made visible or invisible and I noticed that the Validators only activate for visible controls and ignore the invisible ones. This is a useful functionality that is utilized by my program.</p>
  
  <p>however....</p>
  
  <p>I have a need to validate controls that aren't visible since I am splitting up parts of one long page into segments. So I was wondering if there is a way to manually force visible = false validation controls (or ones that are part of an invisible table, etc) to be validated on Page.IsValid, without having to make them visible again?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in Advance!</p>
  
  <p>P.S. I tried using the ValidationGroup property to see if that would catch them but it didn't.</p>