Self-hosting the validation framework

It is strongly recommended that consumers of this validation framework integrate it into their application's dependency injection via the steps shown on the Configuration page.

For applications which do not use DI, the NuGet package CSF.Validation.Selfhosting provides a mechanism by which the validation framework may used without DI. You must install this package to any .NET project where you wish to use the validator.

To create a self-hosted/self-contained instance of the framework, use the ValidatorHost class as follows:

using CSF.Validation;

var host = ValidatorHost.Build(services => {
    // Register rules and/or message providers here
}, options => {
    // Configure default options here
});

The first parameter accepts all of the same syntax as described in the Configuration guide. Note that the standard validation rules are automatically integrated when using the self-hosting package in this way. The second parameter provides for configuration of default options, in the same way as would have been provided as a parameter to UseValidationFramework(), as described at the docs linked above.

Once a self-hosting builder has been created, properties accessible from that object - the host variable in the example above - may be used to work with validators.