C# – asp.net updatePanel PostBackTrigger triggering full postback

asp.netasynchronous-postbackcfile upload

Below is the markup page

  <asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
        <ContentTemplate>
                    <table>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <label>File name<label>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                       <tr>
                            <td>
  <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtName" Width="150%"></asp:TextBox>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                      <tr>
                            <td>
                                <label>File</label>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <asp:FileUpload runat="server" ID="fileUpload" />
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                    <asp:Button runat="server" ID="btnUpload" Text="Upload file"  OnClick="btnUpload_Click" />
                </div>

                <div class="panel-heading">File display</div>
                <div class="panel-body">
     <asp:GridView runat="server">
       </asp:GridView>
                    <asp:Button runat="server" ID="btnRefresh" Text="Refresh" OnClick="btnRefresh_Click" />
                </div>
            </div>
        </ContentTemplate>
        <Triggers>
            <asp:PostBackTrigger ControlID="btnUpload" />
        </Triggers>
    </asp:UpdatePanel>

With the above code, whenever the user clicks "btnUpload", there'll be a post back, but there is an update panel to prevent the post back, when I change the PostBackTrigger to AsyncPostBackTrigger, the page didn't post back but the fileUpload.HasFile will be false and was unable to get the file.

What's wrong with the above code?Why the postBackTrigger triggers a post back?

Best Answer

File upload will not work with AsyncPostBackTrigger. It will only work with PostBackTrigger.
SOLUTION : If You want to upload file with AsyncPostBackTrigger than you have to use ajaxtoolkit. And in AjaxToolkit their is Control name with "AsyncFileUpload".
Hope You know how to add AjaxToolkit to your Toolbox. If you dont know than tell me i will guide you.

For MVC v5.1 use Html.EnumDropDownListFor

@Html.EnumDropDownListFor(
    x => x.YourEnumField,
    "Select My Type", 
    new { @class = "form-control" })

For MVC v5 use EnumHelper

@Html.DropDownList("MyType", 
   EnumHelper.GetSelectList(typeof(MyType)) , 
   "Select My Type", 
   new { @class = "form-control" })

For MVC 5 and lower

I rolled Rune's answer into an extension method:

namespace MyApp.Common
{
    public static class MyExtensions{
        public static SelectList ToSelectList<TEnum>(this TEnum enumObj)
            where TEnum : struct, IComparable, IFormattable, IConvertible
        {
            var values = from TEnum e in Enum.GetValues(typeof(TEnum))
                select new { Id = e, Name = e.ToString() };
            return new SelectList(values, "Id", "Name", enumObj);
        }
    }
}

This allows you to write:

ViewData["taskStatus"] = task.Status.ToSelectList();

by using MyApp.Common

.net – ASP.NET Web Site or ASP.NET Web Application

Website:

The Web Site project is compiled on the fly. You end up with a lot more DLL files, which can be a pain. It also gives problems when you have pages or controls in one directory that need to reference pages and controls in another directory since the other directory may not be compiled into the code yet. Another problem can be in publishing.

If Visual Studio isn't told to re-use the same names constantly, it will come up with new names for the DLL files generated by pages all the time. That can lead to having several close copies of DLL files containing the same class name, which will generate plenty of errors. The Web Site project was introduced with Visual Studio 2005, but it has turned out not to be popular.

Web Application:

The Web Application Project was created as an add-in and now exists as part of SP 1 for Visual Studio 2005. The main differences are the Web Application Project was designed to work similarly to the Web projects that shipped with Visual Studio 2003. It will compile the application into a single DLL file at build time. To update the project, it must be recompiled and the DLL file published for changes to occur.

Another nice feature of the Web Application project is it's much easier to exclude files from the project view. In the Web Site project, each file that you exclude is renamed with an excluded keyword in the filename. In the Web Application Project, the project just keeps track of which files to include/exclude from the project view without renaming them, making things much tidier.

Reference

The article ASP.NET 2.0 - Web Site vs Web Application project also gives reasons on why to use one and not the other. Here is an excerpt of it:

You need to migrate large Visual Studio .NET 2003 applications to VS 2005? use the Web Application project.

You want to open and edit any directory as a Web project without creating a project file? use Web Site project.

You need to add pre-build and post-build steps during compilation? use Web Application project.

You need to build a Web application using multiple Web projects? use the Web Application project.

You want to generate one assembly for each page? use the Web Site project.

You prefer dynamic compilation and working on pages without building entire site on each page view? use Web Site project.

You prefer single-page code model to code-behind model? use Web Site project.

Web Application Projects versus Web Site Projects (MSDN) explains the differences between the web site and web application projects. Also, it discusses the configuration to be made in Visual Studio.