Getting Lightbox to Appear over Referring Page - asp.net

I am working in ASP.NET (framework 2.0) with Master Pages.
I have a page that requires registration and then the user gets kicked back to the referring page.
I need to figure out how to provide a success lightbox that appears over the referring page, not the registration page (the event is fired on form submit).
I have the inline stuff in the master page and the scripts and everything fires just fine but the form is refreshed with the new (referring) page and the DIV gets hidden again.
Is sessions the only way to go here? Is there a way of having one lightbox appearing from the master page regardless of what the sub-pages are doing?
Thanks.

There should be a successful registration event. Can you emit some javascript in that scenario that would cause a redirection to the referring page. You could pass a parameter which would indicate that a light box should show up. I don't think you can redirect directly from successful registration because I am guessing that some cookie would need to be set- which the framework should handle. I might be off, but that is where I would start. I would try and avoid Session if possible.

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I am working on asp.net. and i want to implement partial posts in my application. my situation is like that
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for that i used script manager and update panel but still page refreshes and url also changes.
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If you are using Update panel and still your page is getting post back in that case check that EnablePartialRendering should be true. If this is not the case then check your configuration and all the handlers as registered properly for AJAX.
I will suggest you to use jQuery instead of update panel for partial page post back. Do a google and you will find lot of example on this.
Check this ASP.NET postback with jQuery?

Dynamic web user control problem when browser's back button is clicked

I have an .aspx page in which I dynamically add web controls to a panel.
The problem is when I hit the browser's back buton, it's displayed a version of the page that no longer exists on the server-side, because the controls are dynamically added.
Let's say my aspx dynamically adds Control1. From there, I click a button that loads Control2.
At this moment, if I press the browser's back button, it will display the page with Control1, but Control1 no longer exists on the server-side, so if I interact with it, some erractic behaviour will occur. Any ideas on this?
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Have you tried setting the client side to not cache pages - stick this in your page load:
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheing.NoCache)
(Think the syntax might be slightly off, but you should be able to figure it out)
Have you tried with removing temporary files and restarting browser. Your page might be cached in browser.

Can I change the browser URL while maintaining ViewState in ASP.NET?

I'm doing some brainstorming for a portal framework, and I'm envisioning a breadcrumb navigation stack that is tracked via the ViewState (so that if the user clicks "back" in their browser and clicks some other link, the breadcrumb trail will depart from the right page). My pages are really just ascx controls that get loaded into a placeholder control on the main portal page based on the URL. When the user clicks a portal link, there is a postback that loads the original page and invokes the given link's "clicked" handler, which should then "push" the current location onto the breadcrumb stack before sending the browser a redirect instruction to change the URL to that of the page that I want to go to.
That's as far as my brainstorming goes for the moment, because once we perform a redirect, we lose the ViewState. Rather than doing the redirect, I've thought of simply telling my main portal page to replace the current page control with the target page control, thus avoiding the extra http round-trip and allowing me to keep the ViewState. But then my entire website experience occurs in the context of a single URL, so I lose URL bookmarking among other things. And if I wrap some of my controls in AJAX panels, the entire site happens in one page request as far as the browser's history is concerned.
What I would like is some way to have the browsing history and URLs behave as if each link is leading them to a new page with a descriptive URL and all that, but still have some way to know the path that the user took to get to the page that they're on (ViewState seeming to be the simplest way to track this).
Could anyone suggest some techniques I might try using?
First suggestion... You may want to look into ASP.NET MVC. However, I have to admit to some ignorance here as I'm not sure that would really solve your problem. But it sounds like the sort of thing MVC would be suited for.
Second... it's possible to override the methods responsible for saving and loading ViewState. One of the things you can do, for instance, is push the ViewState into the Session rather than sending it down to the user and back up on postback. You could easily add some custom code here.
Third... I think you may want to rethink part of your design. The ViewState really serves one purpose: It recreates the state of the page as it existed when the page was rendered for the user. If you are moving to a different page, or a new set of controls, why would you need the ViewState at all? The ViewState itself is really just a hack to begin with... ASP.NET's way of maintaining state on top of a stateless system. (but that's a whole 'nother discussion) We have other methods of maintaining state... the primary mechanism being the Session object. Why not save your breaacrumb data there instead?
I would look at using cookies. For performance reasons, you really want to avoid HTTP redirects if you can, and ViewState only works if the user submits a form, not for regular links.
You might do something like maintain several path lists in cookies that show the path that the user took to go from one page to another. Maybe you set a unique ID with each page that is applied by some JavaScript as a query string when the user clicks on a link, and the server uses that ID and the past history from the cookies to determine how to render the bread crumb on the next page?

How to translate content page in a master page after language change (ASP.NET)

I have a content page in a master page in ASP.NET.
What is going on is that the user click on a button in the right corner of the master page and that change the current language. What does the button is changing the Session for the new selected language.
What is happening is that when you click on a button, the code is executed AFTER the Page_Load of both the master page and the content page is called. But in my button, I call a function "Translate" that do the translation of the master page.
Unfortunately, I don't know what to do for the content page. I tried to do a manual reload of it but I don't know how.
Is there anyone here that can help me? I don't think that code is needed here but if it can help you, just ask me what you need and I will update.
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Jaff
After changing the users language settings (both on the thread and where ever you persist that information too) do a Response.Redirect to the page they are already on. This allows for a clean page load and reduces the chance that other culture specific settings will cause a problem (such as date and time selections.)

How to disable browser postback warning dialog

I have an asp.net application that runs exclusively on IE7 (internal web site).
When a user needs to enter data, I pop up a child window with a form. When the form closes, it calls javascript:window.opener.location.reload(true) so that the new data will display on the main page.
The problem is that the browser complains that it must repost the page. Is there any way to turn this feature off?
No, but there is a solution. Its generally considered good design to use a 302 redirect immediately after someone posts data to a page. This prevents that popup from ever occuring. Allow me to elaborate.
1) The user fills in a form and submits data via POST.
2) The backend receives the data and acts upon it.
3) Instead of returning the content to the user, the backend issues a 302 redirect as soon as its done processing the page (possibly redirecting the user back to the exact same url, if need be)
4) The page that the user will see is the page you told their browser to redirect to. They will load up the redirected page with a standard GET request. If they try to refresh the page, it will not repost the data. Problem solved.
This is a problem with the usual "postback" way of ASP.NET. If you need to reload a page without this warning, this page must come from a GET, not a POST. You could do a Response.Redirect("...") yourself. But this will destroy the use of viewstate.
asp.net mvc fixes this issue, not an ie7 only problem but a security feature of most browsers. No fix that I know of except you could just update the content in the main form with js rather than reloading the whole page
It's because the page in window.opener comes from a POST Request
Maybe you can use
javascript:window.opener.location = window.opener.location; to do just a GET request if the data can be fetched without a POST.
I do not believe that there is a way to do that. Instead, why not direct the parent window to a page without a reload.
javascript:window.opener.location='your url'
AFAIK, not via your scripts.
You might try:
window.opener.location = '#';
It should circumvent the browser reposting. And, you can adjust the hash name as needed.
If you move from page1 to page2, and want to disable the browser from going back to page 1,then add the following at the top of page1.
<script>
if(window.history.forward(1) != null)
window.history.forward(1);
</script>

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