.NET Concepts

[calinberindea]

Hello

 

I understand from the new concept of asp.net pages (like windows forms), that the webform is posting back its data. But I'm in a situation that requires some old fashion work:

 

I use pagination to iterate some items from the database. I allow users to filter these items and to make some sorting. Now I want to allow users to view these items one by one on a webform, but I want to keep the filtering and the sort criteria. For this I would submit the where clause and the order by clause to the form. Now I can't do this in .NET, cause I can't submit a webform to another file. Does anybody know any solution?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Derek Stone]

You don't have to submit it to "another file". Simply post the page back to itself. ASP.NET view state should keep the filtering and sorting for you.

[calinberindea]

The first file is paging page that uses datagrid to view the items and the second file would be a webform with all data of only one item, so I can't use the same file.

[Derek Stone]

So you're going from a list view to a detailed view. I think I'm following you now.

 

What you'd need to do is store the view state of the list page in the user's session, a cookie, or by passing the various options to the detailed view via a form post or the query string.

[calinberindea]

I know I have to pass the data and I know how to now. Check this out: Transferring the Datagrid Data Between Web Forms

 

It's a very good article.

Thanks