ASPxGridView customCommandColumnButton - asp.net

Im implementing custrom delete by adding to my ASPxGridView GridViewColumnCustomButton.
Then on my GridView I handle ClientSideEvent
<ClientSideEvents CustomButtonClick="function(s, e) { customButton_OnClick(s, e); }" />
JS:
function customButton_OnClick(s, e) {
if (e.buttonID == "customButtonId") {
e.processOnServer = confirm("Really want to delete?");
}
}
Ive also added to my grid:
OnCustomButtonCallback="GvMyGridViews_OnCustomCallback"
now on the server side I user linq to delete specified row and then submit changes to my DataContext and then DataBind() on my grid.
Problem is that sometimes standard ASPxGridView loading panel is shown for about 1 second ant then my row dissapears so it behaves properly but sometimes loading panel stops mooving. and I need to move mouse over my grid or click button so that my Grid is updated(row dissapears).
Have You got any Idea where the problem is ?
Thanks for help

It it hard to answer your question. Please try to determine if the row was actually deleted from the DB when you call the grid's DataBind method. Also, I suspect that the ASPxGridView is bound to a LinqDataSource object. If so, I suggest that you log which data it returns and check if a row deleted is in the list. It is possible since this component can cache data and return a non valid recordset. To determine which data is returned by the LinqDataSource, you may use the code from
http://forums.asp.net/p/1583916/3998100.aspx

Make sure that after you delete the record at the end of your custombuttoncallback handler that you SET THE DATASOURCE then rebind the grid. If you just call DataBind() without setting the datasource it will not work properly. Ie.
aspxGrid.DataSource = updatedDataSourceAfterTheDelete;
aspxGrid.DataBind();

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I would go for your option 1: Create a custom control
Because you haven't specified a programming language I made one in VB.NET:
Public Class CustomListView
Inherits ListView
Public Sub CheckEmptyData() Handles Me.PreRender
If Me.Items.Count = 0 Then
Dim label As New Label
label.Text = "No data found <br/>"
Me.Controls.AddAt(0, label)
End If
End Sub
End Class
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Is there a special place I need to set the focus or something else I need to do to make this work? Thanks.
We had exactly the same problem. What we had to do is write a script at the bottom of the page that quickly blurs then refocuses to the textbox. You can have a look at the (terribly hacky) solution here: http://www.drive.com.au
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Basically on the focus event of the textbox I set a global var called textBoxHasFocus to true and on the blur event I set it to false. The on the load event of the page I call this script:
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$get("MainSearchBox_SearchTextBox").blur();
$get("MainSearchBox_SearchTextBox").focus();
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this is waste , its simple
this is what you need to do
controlId.focus(); in C#
controlID.focus() in VB
place this in page load or button_click section
eg. panel1.focus(); if panel1 has model popup extender attached to it, then we put this code in page load section
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Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder
Dim p As Control
p = ctrl.Parent
While (Not (p.GetType() Is GetType(System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm)))
p = p.Parent
End While
With sb
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.Append("{")
.Append("document.")
.Append(p.ClientID)
.Append("['")
.Append(ctrl.UniqueID)
.Append("'].focus();")
.Append("}")
.Append("window.onload = SetFocus;")
.Append("")
.Append("</script")
.Append(">")
End With
ctrl.Page.RegisterClientScriptBlock("SetFocus", sb.ToString())
End Sub
So, I'm not sure what method you're using, but if it's different than mine, give that a shot and see if you still have a problem or not.
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function setFocusTimeout(controlID) {
focusControlID = controlID;
setTimeout("setFocus(focusControlID)", 100);
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I also had to increase the timeout from 100 to 300. Your mileage my vary...
I agree with everyone that this is a hack. But from the end-user's perspective, they don't see this code. The hack for them is if they have to manually click inside the control instead of just being automatically placed inside the control already and typing the first few letters to trigger the auto lookup functionality. So, hats off to all who provided their hacks.
I hope this is helpful to someone else.

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