When I started working on application I am working right now, one of first things I noticed, that was not entirely wrong but was inconvenient: when user clicked on some button that triggers update panel you was not entirely sure it worked or not. Why? Because of three things: Continue reading “Global UpdatePanel loading indicator in ASP.NET”
Better algorithm for finding UpdatePanel that will be updated during page request.
Other day I was experimenting with finding which UpdatePanel will be updated during page post back.
I found out that my solution was not working correctly for complex triggers, like user controls with custom events, which will trigger async postbacks and update of panel.
Or for grids with buttons. It was big issue. Also it was not pointing to correct UpdatePanel if name of control was not entirely unique (for example when you have multiple same custom controls on page). It would return first panel, even if it wasn’t updating. Continue reading “Better algorithm for finding UpdatePanel that will be updated during page request.”
Display message on client from anywhere in code with ASP.NET
When I was working with WinForms application in previous work I have found one of most useful feature, ability to show some message to the client. For example user cannot edit some entity in particular time (it is being edited by someone else) or should change password because it will expire in x days. I wanted to do something similar in my web application. Continue reading “Display message on client from anywhere in code with ASP.NET”