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I haven't touched ASP in a long time and I'm starting to remember why!

I have an update panel that contains a repeater, the repeater items contain a button and I want that button as an asynchronous post-back trigger for the update panel.

The update panel looks like this:
ASP.NET
<asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" Visible="true" ID="pnlSproc" UpdateMode="Conditional" ChildrenAsTriggers="true">
    <ContentTemplate>
        .
        .
        .
            <asp:Repeater runat="server" ID="rptParameters" EnableViewState="true" OnItemCreated="rptParameters_ItemCreated" >
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <tr>
                        .
                        .
                        .
                        <td>
                            <asp:Button runat="server" ID="btnAddParameter" />
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:Repeater>
        </tr>
    </ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>

The ItemCreated event of the repeater adds the button as an asynchronous trigger ...
C#
protected void rptParameters_ItemCreated(object source, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
    ScriptManager manager = ScriptManager.GetCurrent(this);

    Button button = (Button)e.Item.FindControl("btnAddParameter");

    if (button != null)
    {
        button.Click += AddParameterClick;
        manager.RegisterAsyncPostBackControl(button);
    }
}

When the event fires, all the appropriate events fire as expected but the panel is rendered twice - once in its updated form (higher up the page than it should be) and once in its original form and position.

If I change the RegisterAsyncPostBackControl call to RegisterPostBackControl everything works as I would expect it to but obviously I get a full page postback which I don't want.

Has anyone come across anything similar before? It certainly looks like it's the async postback that's causing the rendering problem (it occurs in both IE and Chrome and my mark-up looks completely valid. I've tried moving the script manager from the page to the master and that has no effect, either.
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Are you updating the Update Panel inside the AddParameterClick Event? Can you show the code of that Event?
PeejayAdams 9-Sep-14 9:50am    
Hi Tadit,

Yes it's happening in the AddParameterClick

protected void AddParameterClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (_parameters == null)
_parameters = new List<ProcedureParameter>();

foreach (RepeaterItem item in rptParameters.Items)
{
TextBox name = (TextBox)item.FindControl("tbParameterName");
TextBox value = (TextBox)item.FindControl("tbParameterValue");

_parameters.Add(new ProcedureParameter(name.Text, value.Text));
}

_parameters.Add(new ProcedureParameter());

rptParameters.DataSource = _parameters;
rptParameters.DataBind();
pnlSproc.Update();
}
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Solution


Why are you dynamically adding the button as a Trigger. You are doing it because you are calling one custom Event that is "AddParameterClick".

Whatever you are doing inside this Event can be done inside the ItemCommand[^] Event itself. And you can declare ItemCommand Event as a Async Trigger.

Through the RepeaterCommandEventArgs Class[^], you can fetch every details about the Row from which you got the Command.

So, summary is...
  1. Declare the ItemCommand as a Trigger like...
    HTML
    <Triggers>
        <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="rptParameters" EventName="ItemCommand" />
    </Triggers>
  2. Declare ItemCommand for the Repeater. Delete ItemCreated, which is not needed any more.
    HTML
    <asp:Repeater runat="server" ID="rptParameters" EnableViewState="true" OnItemCommand="rptParameters_ItemCommand" >

  3. Inside the ItemCommand, do what you are trying to do inside the AddParameterClick.
 
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PeejayAdams 9-Sep-14 10:34am    
Thanks, Tadit. Your solution is certainly tidier than mine but the end result is exactly the same. I still get the updated panel appearing in the wrong place.
I am out of office right now. Will try to replicate and fix this tomorrow.
Well, I knew that using tables was a bit naughty (I really didn't want to go down the CSS route for a single page, internal web form) but the update panel gets created as a div and that gets confused with the table and therein lies the problem.

As soon as I changed my table to divs and paragraphs, it all started working.

The moral of the story: a short-cut is rarely a short-cut.
 
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Give id and write runat server to your table inside update panel
 
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