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?
