Validating primitive types in ASP.NET MVC

I've implemented the following classes to validate data

public abstract class Validated
{
    public bool IsValid { get { return (GetRuleViolations().Count() == 0); } }

    public abstract IEnumerable<RuleViolation> GetRuleViolations();
}

public partial class User: Validated
{
    public override IEnumerable<RuleViolation> GetRuleViolations()
    {
        if (this.Age < 1)
            yield return new RuleViolation("Age can't be less than 1");
    }
}

It works great! When the form is submitted 开发者_Go百科I just do

if (user.IsValid == false) blah...

But I still need to validate that the Age is an integer

int a = 0;
if (!int.TryParse(age, out a))
{
            error = "Not integer";
            // ...
}

How can I move this to my model?

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Model binding in ASP.NET MVC does those kind of validation automatic (to be exact its being considere as model-binding errors). Please read very carefully through this: http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/input-validation-vs-model-validation-in-aspnet-mvc.html