You will need to use the ExtendedRequiredFieldValidator control provided in the same DLL as shown below.
Download
Download the DLL from here
HTML
<%@ Register TagPrefix="asp" Namespace="Saplin.Controls" Assembly="DropDownCheckBoxes" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 10pt;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:DropDownCheckBoxes ID="DropDownCheckBoxes1" runat="server" Width="180px">
<Style SelectBoxWidth="195" DropDownBoxBoxWidth="160" DropDownBoxBoxHeight="90" />
<Items>
<asp:ListItem Text="Mango" Value="1"></asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Text="Apple" Value="2"></asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Text="Banana" Value="3"></asp:ListItem>
</Items>
</asp:DropDownCheckBoxes>
<asp:ExtendedRequiredFieldValidator ID = "ExtendedRequiredFieldValidator1" runat = "server" ControlToValidate = "DropDownCheckBoxes1" ErrorMessage = "Required" ForeColor = "Red"></asp:ExtendedRequiredFieldValidator>
<br />
<br />
<asp:Button Text="Submit" runat="server" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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