Here's an example app that I built to demonstrate my problem. A single aspx page with
the following on it:
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:ScriptManager runat="server" />
<asp:Button runat="server" ID="btnGo" Text="Go" OnClick="btnGo_Click" />
<asp:UpdatePanel runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtVal1" />
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</form>
Then, in code behind, we have
the following:
protected void btnGo_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Thread.Sleep(5000);
Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("{0}: {1}", DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:MM:ss.fffffff"), txtVal1.Text));
txtVal1.Text = "";
}
If you run this and click on
the "Go" button multiple times you will see multiple debug statements on
the "Output" window showing that multiple requests have been processed. This appears to contradict
the documented behaviour of update panels (i.e. If you make a request while one is processing,
the first requests gets terminated and
the current one is processed).
Anyway,
the point is I want to fix it.
The obvious option would be to use Javascript to disable
the button after
the first press, but that strikes me as hard to maintain, we potentially have
the same issue on a lot of screens it could be easily broken if someone renames a button.
Do you have any suggestions? Perhaps there is something I could do in BeginRequest in Global.asax to detect a duplicate request? Is there some setting or feature on
the UpdatePanel to stop it doing this, or maybe something in
the AjaxControlToolkit that will prevent it?
