Customer Validation ASP.Net C#

I am having the same problem as someone else in this forum. My validation control is not firing...and not sure where I have gone wrong. Could someone please take a look and let me know what obvious error I have here...thanks

I have set up a customer validator in my aspx page using the following:

       <asp:TextBox ID="EmployeeNumber2TextBox" runat="server"
 Text='<%# Bind("EmployeeNumber") %>'Visible='<%# AllowEmployeeNumberEdit() %>' />

           <asp:CustomValidator ID="ValidateEmpNumber" runat="server" 
onservervalidate="ValidateEmpNumber_ServerValidate" 
    controltovalidate="EmployeeNumber2TextBox" 
    ErrorMessage="You Must Enter an Employee Number" Text="*" />

and the code behind:

  protected void ValidateEmpNumber_ServerValidate(object sender, System.Web.UI.WebControls.Serv开发者_JS百科erValidateEventArgs e)
  {
      int SiteCompanyID = System.Convert.ToInt32(Session["SiteCompanyID"]);
      SiteCompanyBLL SiteCompany = new SiteCompanyBLL();
      SiteCompanyDAL.SiteCompanyRow ScRow = SiteCompany.GetCompanyByID(SiteCompanyID);
      bool AutoGenerate = ScRow.AutoGenNumber;  // result returning true or false
      if (AutoGenerate == false)
      {
          if (e.Value.Length == 0)
          e.IsValid = false;
      else
          e.IsValid = false;
      }
  }

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Is the validator in sync with the control that is doing the submit/postback? Also, there is no condition that allows it to be true.

How do you know it isn't firing?

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Did you try making the OnServerValidate and ControlToValidate with the first letter of each word uppercase? Those properties may be case sensitive.

I was able to run a cutdown version of your code on my system.

Are you sure your Web.config is set to compile debug?:

<compilation debug="true">