SmartNavigation and last page state

[Heinrich Moser]

SmartNavigation is supposed to keep the page's last state
in the browser history. As far as I can tell, it doesn't
do that if you use Response.Redirect to change to another
page.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a new webform with one WebControls.TextBox and
two WebControls.Button-Controls "Do nothing" and "Jump".

2. Add the code

Response.Redirect("http://www.microsoft.com")

(or any other URL) to the Jump-Button's Click event.

3. Start the application. Enter "1" into the textbox and
click "Do Nothing". Enter "2" and click "Do Nothing".
Enter "3" and click "Jump". IE should now navigate to the
Microsoft homepage.

4. Notice that when you click on the Back button, the
textbox contains "2" and not "3", as you would expect.

This is a problem, because in our application the buttons
(which are labeled differently, of course) save the user
input into the database. When the user navigates back in
order to click on another jump button, the data is being
overwritten with old values.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Sincerely,
Heinrich

[Ravikanth[MVP]]

Hi

Response.Redirect("<<blah blan>>"), Redirects a client to
a new URL and specifies the new URL.

Smart navigation is best used with ASP.NET pages that
require frequent postbacks but with visual content that
does not change dramatically on return.

Ravikanth

>-----Original Message-----
>SmartNavigation is supposed to keep the page's last

state

>in the browser history. As far as I can tell, it doesn't
>do that if you use Response.Redirect to change to

another

>page.
>
>Steps to reproduce the behavior:
>
>1. Create a new webform with one WebControls.TextBox and
>two WebControls.Button-Controls "Do nothing" and "Jump".
>
>2. Add the code
>
>Response.Redirect("http://www.microsoft.com")
>
>(or any other URL) to the Jump-Button's Click event.
>
>3. Start the application. Enter "1" into the textbox and
>click "Do Nothing". Enter "2" and click "Do Nothing".
>Enter "3" and click "Jump". IE should now navigate to

the

>Microsoft homepage.
>
>4. Notice that when you click on the Back button, the
>textbox contains "2" and not "3", as you would expect.
>
>This is a problem, because in our application the

buttons

>(which are labeled differently, of course) save the user
>input into the database. When the user navigates back in
>order to click on another jump button, the data is being
>overwritten with old values.
>
>Any suggestions will be appreciated.
>
>Sincerely,
> Heinrich
>
>.
>