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UpdatePanel inside a GridView with AlternatingItemTemplate's (2)

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Before anyone answer this question, i would like to mention that what is mentionned here WORK PERFECTLY without the Ajax UpdatePanel. Keep that in mind if you are going to reply please because i need an answer to this question. Thank you.

Here's my question

I've a GridView object which is using AlternatingItemTemplate (and ItemTemplate of course). I can have a button for example in both items, with the same name, and everything is just fine. Without an UpdatePanel, VS2010 doesn't bug me with a duplicate name.

But as soon as i try to put an UpdatePanel in the ItemTemplate and AlternatingItemTemplate, it start to tell me that my button is already defined.

Since i can't put an UpdatePanel right bellow a TemplateField, it mean that i got to put the whole GridView inside an UpdatePanel, and not only the item that i wish to update.

Is there anyone who got this same problem, and found a solution to that?

I think it's overkill to update the whole grid, there must be something i don't know how to do.

Thanks for your help.

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Kamal Khaleefa

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Christian de Bellefeuille

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That's what i call a "Patch". It was what i was going to do to make it work if i really didn't find any good solution. I try to avoid to have duplicate code.

I thought i just missed something, and that there was a reason for not letting me having 2 items with the same name.

i'll let this case opened for a bit today, but if you got 147K points in ASP.NET, the chances are that there's no other workarround. Thanks for your help

Christian de Bellefeuille

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no more comment been added... so i guess that i have no other choice to do this annoying patch.

Christian de Bellefeuille

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Here's what i'm doing. I've defined almost the same button like this. Both are calling ToggleSendMessage. The only difference is the ID, where i added "_Alt" at the end of the ID for the AlternateItem.

So in ToggleSendMessage, i check for the last 4 characters of the ID to see if it's "_ALT" or not. This way, i don't have to read an hidden field to know if i'm in alternateItem or just regular item.

<asp:ImageButton ID="btnToggleSendMessage_Alt" runat="server" ImageUrl="_Alt" CommandName='<%#Eval("UserName") %>' CommandArgument='<%#Eval("bNoteFromTherapist") %>' OnClick="ToggleSendMessage" />