TextBox not updating content

[RizMan]

Ok, here's the situation.
I am quite inexperienced with ASP.NET, so please be patient.
So I have this mainpage, which is basically a simple HTML table which content gets generated based on an XML file.
I have the informations: Author, Comment and Date.
Now I want to allow users to modify their comment. So at the right of every line, there is a link which opens the EDIT webform.
When the webform is opened, I put the informations in the respectiv textboxes i.e. the Comment goes into txtComment.

Now, when I save the new information (done using an XML object which then saves itself to a file), the comment is not changed. When I leave the txtComment.text property empty when openeing the form, the comment is updated fine.

Now after debugging, I noticed that when the txtComment.text property is set to a value in the Page_Load event, changing it's content in the Web Form won't actually change it's "text" property.
Anyone knows what this could possibly be?

I hope I made myself clear

 

[jfrost10]

An asp.net page will always fire its page_load event on EVERY post back. So if you're assining the value in the Page_Load, unless you wrap that around a

If Not Page.IsPostBack
...
EndIf

the code in the page_load will always fire.

Also, when you said that the Edit webform opens, did you mean in a new window, or in the same browser window? If its in a new window, you have to write extra logic to ensure that the original page is reloaded so the new data is displayed.

hth

D'Arcy

 

[RizMan]

I figured it out. Thanks anyway for the reply

 

[jfrost10]

Riz, can you post what the solution was (always helpful in case others have a similar problem)


D

 

[RizMan]

OK, I will post it as soon as I find it next time

 

[mb22]

jfrost:
assuming a new "second" window was opened .... what is the code to re-load the "first" original window which presumably is still visible but with maybe "old" data.
.... (assuming you don't want to open a new window with the latest data)?