Re: ASP.net architecture issue

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From: John Saunders (johnwsaundersiii_at_notcoldmail.com)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:12:03 -0400

"kw" <elitecommerceserver@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uF9hqCOaEHA.4048@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I've developed about a dozen sites with ASP.net and never had much
> trouble...until now.
>
> What I wanted to do with the new web app was create a single page with a
> treenode collection that would dynamically load content into a
placeholder.
>
> I ran into two showstoppers:
>
> 1)"The control tree into which viewstate is being loaded must match the
> control tree"... Meaning that you can't navigate between nodes without an
> error because the dynamic controls loaded in one node do not match the new
> node.
>
> 2) A treenode loads content which contains an IE Tabstrip/MultiPage which
> contains one or more IE Tabstrip/MultiPage's. The innermost MultiPage
> controls do not fire events, no matter what you do.
>
> Has anyone else discovered these flaws in ASP? Were you able to come up
> with a workaround? If you ditched the architecture, what did you come up
> with?

Make sure that you load the same controls in the same order on every
request. That's the only way you'll get ViewState and events to work
correctly. 

-- 
John Saunders
johnwsaundersiii at hotmail

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