Archive for March, 2008

In my previous post, I described how to use an UpdatePanel that is located inside a Repeater or other data-bound control while maintaining your databinding. In addition to the data-binding challenge, dynamically creating UpdatePanels your page can also pose other complications.Another issue that I’ve encountered is identifying controls that the AsyncPostBackTrigger on the UpdatePanel refer [...]

Sometimes you might find it necessary to place an UpdatePanel control inside the ItemTemplate of a Repeater or other databound control. Normally you would probably just put the UpdatePanel outside of the repeater, but this can cause other problems. First of all, it makes the size of the update much larger. Secondly, I ran into [...]

One of the major shortcomings of the ADO.NET dataset system, in my opinion, is the lack of support for transactions. In .NET 2.0 this situation was somewhat addressed by the addition of the System.Transactions namespace. However, this namespace has two flaws when it comes to using it with a DataSet. First, if you open more [...]