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# EP 58 : Fluent Validation in .NET

**[Waseem .NET Newsletter](https://daily.dev/sources/mwaseemzakir)** · 2 min read · 137 upvotes · 8 comments

## Summary

Fluent Validation is a powerful library used in the .NET world for validation. It provides flexibility, custom validations, and built-in validators.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@pingu2k4** · 3 upvotes

> There's also a [Blazor implementation of this library](https://github.com/Blazored/FluentValidation). I use this extensively in my Blazor projects.

**@cozidian** · 2 upvotes

> This + Fluent Assertions, amazing!

**@sanider** · 2 upvotes

> Is it better than Data Annotations? Someone could forget about validation or not be aware if it

**@dalamain** · 1 upvotes

> I love Fluent API for configuring Entity Framework mappings, glad to see a validation library using the Fluent approach.

**@rumendimov** · 1 upvotes

> Wow! Amazing, I learned soemthing new today

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