Display message to user on ItemCommand event - asp.net

I have grid in my ASP.NET page (actualy it's Telerik RadGrid). There is GridButtonColumn, and OnItemCommand event is called when user clicks the link in this cell.
Right now, after user clicks, some data is prepared in the background and sent by e-mail. At the end of my method I want to display to user, that operation was succeeded. Any ideas, how can I reach that goal? I cannot use JavaScript in this event (there is no OnClick event or ClientScript property), and I want user to stay on current page, so also no Response.Redirect can be used.
Please, share some ideas, how to inform user, that operation was successful.

Javascript is the best option , To display Alert or Popup to user.
You can also do one thing , Place One DIV on Header of grid and give some style to DIV and display your message on that div.

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Button in CustomControl added in OnClick doesn't postback until second click

I have the following scenario:
UserControlA contains a <asp:Button id="bSomeid" onClick="AddItem" /> with some code to an item to a shopping basket in AddItem.
UserControlB contains some LinkButton's that dynamically add a selection of UserControlA to the page in the OnClick event.
This is all done in an UpdatePanel. It is a little more complicated but I have pruned the information to what I believe is causing the problem, I will add more information if necessary.
The problem I have is that it takes 2 clicks for the AddItem event to trigger after I have added the items to the page after clicking the LinkButton.
I understand why this is happening - it is to late in the page cycle to register events for the next post back in the onclick - but can anyone think of a way around this? Can I force an event to be triggered on the next postback? I have tried to think of a way to run my code in page_load but I requuire access to the sender in the onClick.
Using .NET 4.0.
EDIT
I managed to find a way to get the link button sending the request in the Page_Load (using Request.Form["__EVENTTARGET"];) so I moved my code to the Page_load event. It still requires 2 clicks so I am assuming it isn't something to do with the onClick being registered to late.
Are there any other general things to check that could cause a button to require 2 clicks to post an event properly?
If your suspicion about being late in page life cycle is true then you can try using ScriptManager.RegisterAsyncPostBackControl method to register dynamically added controls in the link button click - considering that your button is within user control, you need to add public method into UserControlA that would actually register the button bSomeid1 and link button click from UserControlB would actually call the A control's method.
EDIT :
Another cause for button click not happening can be that button being dynamic control is not added in the page hierarchy when post-back happens (or it gets added very late in the page life cycle when the post back data is already processed). A really full-proof solution should add dynamic controls back to the page hierarchy in page_load it-self (and strictly maintaining same controls ids within hierarchy). If that's not possible then you can sniff the request (Request.Form) to detect the post-back.
In your case, you should ascertain if the button is indeed causing the post-back on each click. If yes, what is the POST data (Request.Form) for the first request - what is the __EVENTTARGET value on the first click (and post-back)? That should start your trouble-shooting.
On the other hand, a simple work-around could be to use html anchor element (you can still use link button) and have a javascript handler in the click event that would set some hidden variable and then submit the form (you can simulate the click on hidden button to trigger ASP.NET client side submit pipeline) . Now the hidden variable value can be used on the post-back to determine which link button has been clicked.
"Are there any other general things to check that could cause a button to require 2 clicks to post an event properly?"
Does it require two clicks on the control, or does it take accept a single click elsewhere on the screen, and then fire first time with a single click on the control?
I have my own (similar) issue with the Updatepanel where the first (expected) trigger does not fire and it seems that a single click elsewhere, and then the subsequent triggers fires first time (which totals 2 clicks)
[edit] Since you are working on this ATM, it may help me as well. Do you have a textbox with a trigger event on it? I do, and if I leave this blank (so that it does not fire) then there is no need for a second click.

User Control is not posting its form values

I have a user control I am adding dynamically.
It has a link button and a text area on it. The containing div is hidden via style sheet (client side), and I use some jquery to pop it up in a modal.
It is getting added in the init and the button click event is firing on the server.
BUT the textareas value is not being set. On further inspection the field value is not even being sent in the form POST data.
Any ideas why the value is not being sent. The rest of the form values are being sent with no problems.
Make sure the control is actually being added to a form control. Your link button will still post back even if it's outside the form as it's a javascript call, but there won't be any content from your server controls in postdata.

Prevent Postback in array of linkbutton is created at dynamically

i have created Array of Linkbutton
and when user click on link button it will create an array of Radio Buttons
but it requires Postback all time so page load takes more time...
what is solution of it??
Use asp.net Ajax update panel.
Put link buttons and panel/view (or what ever control you are using ) update panel.
I am not sure if I am following a 100% but if you don't want to do a post back then your going to need to write some javascript(or use a framework like jquery) to generate radio buttons when the user clicks the link button(plus you probably don't want to use a link button then as it will try to always cause a postback or you will need to stop the post back from happening).

How can controls (buttons) be set in a ModalPopup Extender panel that do NOT close the panel?

Here's the situation.
When a user is editing a given piece of data, they're allowed to add messages/comments. These are stored as child records in a SQL database. Clicking on the Add Message button brings up a panel (pnlMessage) courtesy of the AJAX ModalPopup Extender. This takes some input and, when the "Send Message" button in the panel is clicked (I learned the hard way to NOT make that the 'OkButton' property), the message is stored in the database and an email is sent to the intended recipients. No problem there.
However, I need to be able to allow the user to add new email addresses (so long as they are registered in our database). I have another ModalPopup / panel combo (pnlSearch) that's tied to a button on the previous panel (pnlMessage).
The user is supposed to be able to add an email or click on a search button to populate a list to choose from.
The pop-up panel (pnlSearch) comes up just fine, but clicking the "Lookup" button (which instigates the search and returns a collection of records that the user is supposed to pick from) closes the panel.
Previously, I ran into the problem of having the Button.Click event never firing when I put the Button into the "OkControlID" property (the CancelControlID works fine since I don't want to do anything). Removing the "OkControlID=Button" line allowed it to work perfectly with the Button.Click event firing as expected.
So now I have the Search panel with a button for "OK" and a button for "Search" - but the panel should stay up and visible after the Search.Click does it's thing. Am I missing some property that basically says "don't close the panel when this button is clicked"? Of course, if I bring up the panel again in the same session, the results from the previous effort are there (the search results).
I'm trying to avoid having to go to javascript as there isn't much, if any, of that experience available to support this.
Help!
Thanks in advance.
You can put the Search panel and the Search button inside of an UpdatePanel. Anything inside of the UpdatePanel will be able to post back without closing the popup. Be sure not to put the buttton that is supposed to close the popup inside of the UpdatePanel.

Passing data to server code from a client-side control using ASP.NET AJAX

I have a ListView on a page that displays a list of widgets. When a user clicks on one of the items in the list, I want to display a ModalPopup that contains controls allowing the user to operate on the item they selected.
I could easily accomplish this by placing a Panel and a ModalPopupExtender in the ListView's ItemTemplate, but this mean one set of hidden controls for each and every widget, which would massively bloat the page size. (There are going to be some rather heavyweight controls in there.) Instead I want to reuse a single ModalPopup for each of the widgets in the list.
I've done some searching but I haven't found anything that applies directly to my situation before. From what I've been able to figure out, however, I have to do something like this:
Place a Panel and a ModalPopupExtender on the page inside an UpdatePanel.
Build a custom WidgetManipulator user control that has a WidgetID property. Put this in the Panel, along with a couple OK/Cancel buttons.
In Javascript on the page, attach a click handler to each widget in the ListView that triggers a postback on the UpdatePanel.
On the UpdatePanel_Load event on the server, display the ModalPopup and then set the WidgetID propety on the WidgetManipulator to the ID of the clicked widget.
On the OKButton_Click event or CancelButton_Click event on the server, hide the ModalPopup. If OKButton was clicked, call WidgetManipulator.SaveChanges() first.
The part I haven't figured out is: How the heck do I know what widget was clicked on, and how do I pass that back to the server when I refresh the UpdatePanel? Is this even the right approach at all?
If you can use jQuery instead you could do something along the lines of these two posts:
Modal Delete Confirmation Version
Two Using jQuery SimpleModal Plugin
Demo
Inserting Content Using
jQuery SimpleModal Plugin Demo
When I need to pass data from client to server in ASP.NET AJAX, I generally use an asp:HiddenField with runat="server". Both can see it freely, but beware potential postback asynchronicity.
Sounds like you need to notify the server the widget was clicked - You may use a Timer to postback; or I'd go with option 5.

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