asp.net calendar extender postback - asp.net

Hello guys i been using asp.net calendars for giving the user filtering options over a grid table.
Now i decided to try the ajax extender to save some room on the page.
The moment the user clicks on one of the calendars the grid updates/changes ( i got some code in the SelectionChanged of the calendars that after few rows gives 2 date values that are sent to the sql and used as the allowed date range for the filter/select command ).
Now my problem is that unlike the regular calendar the ajax extender got no postback and no selectionchanged event i can use code in , and i not so sure how to make it all work without those 2 options.

The calendar extender "extends" your control. You still use your control's events. The extender will basically "impersonate" a user typing text into the control...
Catch the events on the control that the extender is bound to, not the extender itself.

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FormView TextBox Focus

What events are triggered when a focus is set into TextBox?
And similarly what events are triggered when focus is set out from TextBox?
I have several TextBoxes in a FormView.
I have tabbed into a Textbox.
How can I write a generic code to find out the ID of this TextBox programatically (without using JavaScript)?
How can I get the text value from this TextBox?
You are asking 2 separate questions. For the first one - what events are triggered when focus is set in the browser (assuming in VB code) - the answer is none. A quick scan of the MSDN documentation for the control for exposed events here should confirm that. You would have to respond to focus changes on the browser via javascript in some manner.
For the second question, if you can live with responding when the page is posted back to the server rather than on focus change. You can assign all your textboxes to the same TextChanged event, and then the sender property will be the textbox which had the change. Connecting Multiple Events to a Single Event and/or AddHandler Statement

How to load user controls dynamically in ASP.NET without postback

I have a ASP.Net(C#) page. When a user selects a value in dropdownlist, some new controls will be visible to him.
I am able to that now, but the page has to reload every time and state has to be maintained between postbacks.
Is there any way to do the same without reloading of the page in a easiest way possible without using ajax control toolkit?
Additional info: the data for the dropdownlist is coming from the database, and some places it has to be all server side so i can't use javascript .
You can try this idea: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178208(v=vs.100).aspx. I have not try it before but it seems logical.
you should go through updatepanel. Put all the controls inside a updatepanel which you want to show on selectedindexchanged event of the dropdownlist and write code behind on selectedindexchanged event of the dropdownlist accordingly. Hope this will help you...

AutoPostBack using ASP.NET text box and AjaxControlToolkit CalendarExtender

I would like to like to trigger a postback after user selects a date. Am using the AjaxControlToolkit's CalendarExtender control. The date textbox which is associated to the extender is editable too which enables the user to manually enter the date in a particular format. Values of quite a few controls which reside on that page are to be updated depending on the newly selected date and hence going to the server is a must.
I did try using the OnClientDateSelectionChanged property of the extender which lets me hook in my custom javascript, using which i was planning to trigger a postback but for some odd reason the function gets called only if the date is selected using an extender and not when manually edited (Hoping that it doesn't catch the click event over textbox's change).
Am sure many have tackled this issue before. Please do share. Thanks.
Here it is, Keep It Simple as they say. Set AutoPostBack of the text box to true and capture the OnTextChanged event on the server side.

ASP.NET Dynamic Page Controls: Is it possible to bind events AFTER Page.Load?

I have a site that I am currently working on in ASP.NET 2.0 using the usual WebForm stuff and ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. Is it possible to bind an event to a dynamically created control after the Page.Load event?
I have a table <td> element that I am dynamically creating similarly to this code:
' Create Link Button
lnk.ID = String.Format("lnkDetails_{0}", dr("Id"))
lnk.Text = dr("Name").ToString()
lnk.CommandArgument = dr("Id").ToString()
AddHandler lnk.Click, AddressOf DetailsLink_Click
cName.Controls.Add(lnk)
This this code is looped over for each row in a database (and of course more cells are added to the table, including an ImageButton with an event. The events work flawlessly when I execute this code during events leading up to and including Page.Load. I need to be able to fill this table with current data, which is updated during a btnClick Event elsewhere on the page, which occurs after this Page_Load event, so I am populating with old data. If I change this code to Page.LoadComplete, events stop working.
This data is a summary display of various components of an application, things like somebody's name, which when updated on a 'detail' form, updates the database by partial postback (a requirement), then it needs to show the update in this 'summary' section after an update. Currently it takes 2 postbacks to actually see the change in the 'summary' section, so effectively the summary is 1 step behind the changes (clear as mud?)
What would be the best way for me to populate this table with current data (which is available during/after Page.LoadComplete), but still have an event fire when a link is clicked (the event causes an UpdatePanel to display the 'detail' form).
I also have jQuery at my disposal and the usual ASP.NET AJAX methods, also javascript is a requirement for the website, so I do not need to degrade for unsupported browsers.
This is my first ASP.NET web application and need some help figuring out the best way to make this happen (I'm well versed in PHP, Django and the usual ways to do web forms - things like having multiple forms on one page o_O).
Update:
There really isn't a good way to bind control events to controls after Page_Load. The overall architecture of the pages is there is one ASP.NET form encompassing the entire page, there is only 1 aspx page. I am using master pages (however it doesn't have any obvious implications to my issue).
The page is split into a left and right 'pane', the left is a summary of all the data (in an update panel), the right 'pane' has 6 'tabs' implemented each as their own user control, each with several form fields and an update button all in it's own UpdatePanel.
An update on any of these tabs only refreshes the summary panel (UpdatePanel.update()) and its own panel. The 'refreshing' and event binding of dynamic controls of the summary from the db happens during Page_Load and the Update Button event updates db data. (The control event happens after Page_Load). I want to avoid doing a double post to get the summary to update, any thoughts are helpful.
You need to postback the whole page after your data changes in the 'btnClick Event elsewhere on the page'. It sounds like you have an UpdatePanel and it sounds like this is catching the postback of your btnClick event handler. Put the btnClick outside the UpdatePanel or change its triggers so that your btnClick forces a postback/refresh of your data. Or, redesign your table so it's AJAXly-refreshed when you click on btnClick, it's hard to get you more details without knowing more about the structure of your page and controls.
Good luck!
You can bind to an event whenever you want. It's just a simple event after all. But not all places might be suitable because you have to take into account when the event fires. And in most cases this happens between Page_Load and Page_PreRender. That includes the click event on a LinkButton. In general, I would recommend to add your dynamically created controls in the Page_Init stage.
You have to add the controls before Page.Load in order to maintain ViewState between postbacks, so use the OnInit event handler for that.
But once they're added, you should be able to bind event handlers (such as OnClick) at any point during or after the Page.Load... for example in your grid's ItemDataBound (or something like) or in the Page.PreRender.

How best to make the selected date of an ASP.NET Calendar control available to JavaScript?

How best to make the selected date of an ASP.NET Calendar control available to JavaScript?
Most controls are pretty simple, but the calendar requires more than just a simple document.getElementById().value.
When you click on a date with the calendar, ASP does a postback, you could always put the SelectedDate value of the calendar control into a hidden field on the page during the OnLoad event of the page or the SelectionChanged event of the Calendar control.
This might help you. It uses YUI, but you can probably port some of that functionality over to another library or custom code it. It should get you started though.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/aspnet-yahoouicalendar.aspx
You might find useful the MS AJAX Calendar control extender, you can get the date just by
document.getElementById('<%= DateTextBox.ClientID%>').value;
DateTextBox is an asp:TextBox control that will be extended with the AJAX calendar.
I'm using Page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock() to put a small script on the page that just declare a variable with the desired value. I was hoping for some a little less... clunky.

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