I'm working on a web site that contains a button. Originally, this button had an event handler that performed some processing and then called Response.WriteFile
, which in turn caused the current page to be replaced with the file being written. This was not the desired behavior, so I added a PostbackUrl
element to bring up the other page in a new window. Imagine my dismay to discover that specifying a PostbackUrl
causes the page to NOT fire the Click event for the button.
My workaround comprised of two steps:
- In the page being navigated FROM, move the code out of the event handler into a
public
method. - In the page being navigated TO, add the following line to the
Page_Load
event handler:
((MyPreviousPage)(Page.PreviousPage)).MyPublicMethod();
or for VB:
CType(Page.PreviousPage, MyPreviousPage).MyPublicMethod()
I've been paid as a programmer since 1982 with experience in Pascal, and C++ (both self-taught), and began writing Windows programs in 1991 using Visual C++ and MFC. In the 2nd half of 2007, I started writing C# Windows Forms and ASP.Net applications, and have since done WPF, Silverlight, WCF, web services, and Windows services.
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