Validations for controls on a panel not firing???

[Brooke]

I am having problems with controls on a panel not firing. The controls that
are directly on the form will validate, but the controls on the panel will
not validate.

I have the AutoValidate property for the form set to EnableAllowFocusChange
and then I call the ValidateChildren method when the save button is clicked.
If I cannot get the form to validate the controls, can I loop through each
control and call the validate event?

Thanks

private void toolStripReviewActionItemsSaveItem_Click(object sender,
EventArgs e)

{

// Validate all of the children controls

// If any controls fail validation then show message box and return

if (!this.ValidateChildren(ValidationConstraints.Enab led))

{

// At least one of the controls failed validation

MessageBox.Show(

"Please correct the data and attempt the save again.",

this.Text + " - Invalid Data",

MessageBoxButtons.OK,

MessageBoxIcon.Error,

MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1);

// Return from the form and correct the bad data

return;

}

// Validation was successful so save the dataset to the database

doActionItemsSaveRecord();

// Disable the controls that are used to add or edit records

disableActionItemsAddEdit();

}