refresh page event

[sdlangers]

Hi,

 

does anyone know how to capture a refresh page event in asp.net?

 

e.g. to be able to tell (server side) wheter the user has navigated to the page or has refreshed the page?

 

thanks.

[PlausiblyDamp]

check the Page.IsPostBack property in the load event of the page. If it is false then they have navigated to the page, if true then the page is being generated in response to a user action.

[sdlangers]

yeah - its something like that i need, but i dont think the isPostBack works for refreshing the browser.. what i need is a way to distinguish between the user navigating to a page and a user hitting the browser refresh or f5

 

thanks for your help

[Liqdfire]

yeah - its something like that i need, but i dont think the isPostBack works for refreshing the browser.. what i need is a way to distinguish between the user navigating to a page and a user hitting the browser refresh or f5

 

thanks for your help

 

not really

if I am not mistaken the autopostback is false if a user refreshes.

[sdlangers]

Hi,

 

If i have the following code:

 

   Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
       'Put user code to initialize the page here
       If Page.IsPostBack Then
           Response.Write("postback is true")
       Else
           Response.Write("postback is false")
       End If
   End Sub

 

and the page is a simple html page. When it loads first, it displays 'postback is false'

 

when i hit refresh it says 'postback is false'

 

when i navigate to the page (via a link) it says 'postback is false'

 

Am i missing anything or does anyone know another way of doing it?

 

Thanks for your help.

[Liqdfire]

no your not missing anything

[sdlangers]

so does anyone know if this can it be done?

[davemcminoway]

I have the same problem. I have a page with a datagrid. If I dont alter the page and hit "Refresh" it works fine. But if I alter a row and hit "Refresh" it doesn't work. Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

 

Dave

[russgreen]

same as davemcminoway

 

I am in axactly the same position as davemcminoway. Using a datagrid and I want to trap the Broswer refresh to reload my data but not actually refresh the browser. You end up with the update command going off when it shouldn't.