I have run into what seems to be a very famous problem: My updatepanel fires a full postback instead of a async postback. The normal solution is to give all controls you add dynamically an ID, which I have done, but I still get a full postback instead of my async postback...
Here's the code:
HTML:
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="ItemsUpdatePanel" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional" ChildrenAsTriggers="False">
<Triggers>
</Triggers>
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:ListView ID="PlayerItems" runat="server" GroupItemCount="5"
onitemdatabound="PlayerItems_ItemDataBound">
<LayoutTemplate>
... Listview stuff ...
</asp:ListView>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
The interesting part is the C# code behind (method PlayerItems_ItemDataBound), which is like the following:
ImageButton imgBtn = new ImageButton();
imgBtn.ID = "itemBtn";
imgBtn.Width = Unit.Pixel(30);
imgBtn.ImageUrl = "~/Images/Game/Items/" + myItem.ItemImageUrl;
ContextMenu menu = new ContextMenu();
menu.BoundControls.Add(imgBtn);
menu.ItemCommand += new CommandEventHandler(menu_ItemCommand);
menu.AutoHide = true;
menu.RolloverColor = Color.Gray;
menu.ID = "MenuMenu";
Panel panel = (Panel)(e.Item.FindControl("ItemPanel"));
panel.Controls.Add(imgBtn);
panel.Controls.Add(menu);
AsyncPostBackTrigger trig = new AsyncPostBackTrigger();
trig.ControlID = menu.UniqueID;
trig.EventName = "ItemCommand";
ItemsUpdatePanel.Triggers.Add(trig);
So, I actually add an AsyncPostBackTrigger to the menu, so the ItemCommand event should be registered. What happends when I click an item in this contextmenu, is a full postback happends.
I have been trying to play with the ChildrenAsTriggers property without help. I have also been moving the AsyncPostBackTrigger code up and down, also without help.
Thanks a lot beforehand..! Lars
I had the same experience when populating a CheckBoxList inside a ListView inside a Panel in an UpdatePanel. It was solved by adding this code in the CheckBoxList:
ClientIDMode="AutoID"