>>>>The difference is that these two fields have validator attached to them. However, why should it affect the visual display? And is there anything I can do?
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>>>Not sure. How is the page layout controlled? Flow layout, absolute positioning or the old table containers ? I've just looked at a page I have (using absolute positioning) where the Validator is implemented as a < span > with hidden=true so I guess it's taking up real estate whether there's an error or not so if it is in a grid cell it will affect its size....
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>>I found an answer on ASP.NET forum. I just had to set Display property of the validator to Dynamic.
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>Ha - true! But of course you'll still get the difference if the validation fails - but I guess that would be acceptable..
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>>However, I'm still having problem debugging in the FireFox :( I press Update button and nothing happens.
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>>Also I believe the code for the page is implemented incorrectly - but I don't know if I should change it.
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>>Currently there is some extra code on Row Updating. In one of the columns there is a list which is going to a separate table. The code is deleting all items for the particular program from the table and adds them for the selected items.
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>>Now, since it's not done in the SP, there is a possibility of partial update.
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>>I'm wondering how serious the problem is and should I really spend time changing it if the current code seems to work?
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>Presumably this uses two SQL commands. Why not just wrap them in a transaction? Or maybe the whole page already has a transaction directive?
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AFAIK no, but I'll check. The page has UpdateCommand in SQLDataSource + Row_Updating event handler with the separate Delete/Insert combination.

UPDATE. I don't see transaction directive on the page and I'm not sure how to wrap these commands into transaction since one is UpdateCommand and others are in the code.

>Getting 'Server Unavailable' on that link at the moment :={

Ouch. That means our problems are not yet over :( Let me re-start the live server then.

I may need a new round of consultation with William about our server problems.