I am just getting to grips with the concept of a UserControl.

I've created a UserControl to group together a number of controls that were being duplicated on individual pages of a TabControl.

Some of these controls are text fields that require validation, and when validation is unsuccessful I need to display an error message. However the place where I want to display the error message is on the status bar on the main form.

What is the best way to handle validation/error display in this situation?