Updating nested usercontrol after popup window close guidance - asp.net

I'm using telerik radgrid control with following layout:
I'm curious if anybody can provide general guidance in what approach I should take to reliably update user control that initiated popup window action?

On radWindow OnClientClose event you can write up javascript code to reload the user control which initiated the action.
I had a somewhat similar requirement sometime ago, where I needed to rebind the grid after closing the radWindow and used the onclientclose
function RefreshGrid() {
var masterTable = $find("<%= GRIDNAME.ClientID %>").get_masterTableView();
masterTable.rebind();
}
In any case, I suggest you to look into the javascript api on how to update the user control(depends on what you want to update on the user control).

So here is how I've solve the problem:
I created "hidden" button on each tab's user control that needs to be updated and passed in button client id when opening popup. this button client id is stored as java script variable and when user close modal rad window I execute code that simulate hidden button click:
$find(myStoredButtonClientIdJSVariable).click();
That in turns execute proper user control server side code and my grid is properly refreshed.
Hope somebody might have some benefits reading this.

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jQUery Mobile - how can I pass back values on dialog close?

I have a form page that opens a dialog in order to enter new information. I open the dialog in the "standard" jQM way:
Open dialog
What I need to do is pass back some of the values that were entered so that I can update the page with those values. How do I do that?
As an added bonus, I also really need to be able to submit the values. It seems like jQuery Mobile is setup close the page on any link click. This is an ASP.NET application, and so I need for the page to last long enough to hit the Button_Click() event in the code behind.
Here's the pieces you need:
Html in the dialog:
Cancel
Submit
In pagecreate:
$("#btnSave", pagediv).live('click', function () {
var s = page.Model;
s.serverName = $("#txtName", pagediv).val();
s.Save(function () {
$('.ui-dialog').dialog('close');
});
});
s.Save is a function that writes to the datastore, updates a global model object that is accessible to all pages, then calls the callback function.
In the pageshow handler for the parent page, update the controls from the model. You can't update the parent page directly from the dialog as the parent page may not exist at that point - if data-dom-cache isn't set, it will be removed as soon as the dialog is displayed and will not be recreated until you call close.

ASP.NET / VB.NET: Reference a Textbox value without postback?

I have a child aspx page in an iFrame. There are a few textboxes, which are populated in the page load event.
There is also a LinkButton which the user clicks when s/he is finished editing the fields. There are some javascript functions and other things going on, so a full postback (ie: asp button) is out of the question.
Problem is, I need to reference the textboxes NEW values (user changes) after the linkbutton is clicked.
Is there any way to do this?
Thanks,
Jason
EDIT:
After playing with the interface a bit further, I realized the Page_Load event was firing as soon as the LinkButton was clicked. Of course this is where the data is initially loaded, so any changes the user made is immediately written over. Current plan of attack is to create an IsLoaded cookie value and check if true before the mentioned code executes. If anybody has a better idea, please let me know!
Thanks,
Jason
You can use jQuery to grab the textbox value on click of the button.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.btnSubmit').click(function(e) {
alert($("#txtName").val());
});
});
Then you may pass this textbox value to a server side method by calling it using jQuery AJAX. See the link below .
http://weblogs.asp.net/karan/archive/2010/09/12/calling-server-side-method-using-jquery-ajax.aspx
You want to access the new textbox values from the parent or from within iframe which has that webform opened?

jQuery UI + ASP.NET: Make Modal Popup Load After AJAX is Ready

I was hoping for a little help. I am currently using some of the jQueryUI widgets in an ASP.Net Web App. I have successfully got everything working. Basically, I have a GridView on a page which contains some hidden fields in each row containing data. I also have a dialog div containing an update panel and a few Labels.
When a user clicks on an Image Button on the GridView, the jQuery is fired to show the jQueryUI dialog and code behind is used to fill the labels from the selected GridView row. Unfortunately, the AJAX communication takes quite a bit longer to update versus showing the dialog div.
The same question actually applies to the loading of an ASP page into a jQuery popup window also as I will need to eventually do this.
So my questions are:
How can I make jQuery wait to execute until after the partial postback has returned with the AJAX information for the popup?
Is the above method the right way to go?
Is there a better way?
Is there a way to speed up AJAX
communications to make it more
instantaneous?
Thanks in advance for your input.
without knowing exactly what you're doing (code wise), the best I can understand is that you want to trigger some behavior after the ajax call has completed, which is actually supported like so:
$.ajax({
url: 'myurl.aspx',
success: function(data) {
//everything you want to happen after the ajax completes.
//this can either be code, or a call to another function that loads your div
}
});

How can I trigger a server-side event from a client-side event?

Short version
All I need is that, in a ModalPopUp, when the DoubleClick event of a ListItem fires, the click event of my OK button should be executed.
Detail
I have a ModalPopUpExtender, which hosts a user control. The user control has an OK and a Cancel button. Along with that, it has a dynamic ListBox added to it. So far, I've considered the following possible solutions:
Use Ajax.Net. But, I cannot afford to have a WebMethod.
Use a ClientScriptCallBack. This will need a lot of JavaScript, since I have made almost every control dynamic.
Is there any other way apart from using an UpdatePanel?
Have a look at this way using __doPostback
calling a VB.net function from javascript

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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