Validation Groups - You can assign a group name to a set of validators to ensure that validation occurs only for controls in the specified group. This enables you to have multiple separately-validated forms on a single page.

The ValidationGroup property is used when want to perform separate validation scenarios on the same page. Set the group name on validator controls and on the button that causes validation. By default all validators are in the "" group (default group), for backward compatibility. Page also exposes GetValidators("group") method and Validate("group") method. Page.IsValid reflects validity of all controls (cumulative) that have had Validate called.

In this example validators (RequiredFieldValidator) are set for all textboxes, but when you postback from the toolbar only the first textbox is validated because the toolbar is set to validate only ToolbarValidatorGroup