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Post #305,440
by jay
3/12/09 11:08:04 PM
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New Yep, it's a hack
I'm sure there is a more ASP.NET style solution that involves reworking the connection object and moving the data pull into it's own subroutine that can be called from both the Page_load and button click event.

Honestly though, even when I was coding ASP.NET, I went out of my way to minimize the use of it's event cycle. It's just adding a layer of obscurement to the web event cycle and exists only to try and make ASP.NET and windows forms have a similar event loop. Which doesn't archive anything, good form coding and good web coding still remain vastly different, because the bottlenecks are in different places and the platform fundamentally different.

Jay
Post #305,442
by altmann
3/13/09 12:56:47 AM
3/13/09 1:08:02 AM
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New Re: Yep, it's a hack
I do think there's a misunderstanding by Lincoln of the magic ASP.net is doing behind the scenes here. It's understandable given his desktop VB background. I came at ASP.Net after doing plain old HTML form processing with Perl and CGI, so I knew there had to be something keeping state for me and rebuilding object trees server side and routing "events" via hidden form variables.

But it's definitely geared towards "application" style design rather than "website" design.

PS: The ASP.Net style design would have been to ditch the StartSearch.aspx page and just have a single Search.aspx page that only enables the results grid and does the DB work if there is content in the search textbox.
Expand Edited by altmann March 13, 2009, 01:08:02 AM EDT
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     handling a recursive ASP.Net web page - (lincoln) - (10) - March 11, 2009, 05:39:51 PM EDT
         sudo apt-get install php __________ :-P -NT - (drook) - (1) - March 11, 2009, 06:54:03 PM EDT
             Not unless you plan - (lincoln) - March 12, 2009, 09:45:24 AM EDT
         Some random ideas. - (Another Scott) - March 11, 2009, 07:26:57 PM EDT
         Re: handling a recursive ASP.Net web page - (altmann) - March 11, 2009, 07:49:34 PM EDT
         can you reuse the module for the original search? - (boxley) - March 12, 2009, 08:50:23 AM EDT
         Re: handling a recursive ASP.Net web page - (jay) - (4) - March 12, 2009, 09:25:54 AM EDT
             That's what I wanted - (lincoln) - (3) - March 12, 2009, 10:16:07 AM EDT
                 I don't get it (well, I do but,,,) - (altmann) - (2) - March 12, 2009, 07:16:35 PM EDT
                     Yep, it's a hack - (jay) - (1) - March 12, 2009, 11:08:04 PM EDT
                         Re: Yep, it's a hack - (altmann) - March 13, 2009, 01:08:02 AM EDT

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