You are right the Panel is free. but doesn't it perform post backs to obtain the next panel?

For example if you had 7 panels and are currently displaying the first panel, then what is currently showing for the source HTML? To the best of my knowledge it's only showing the the source HTML for the first panel. To get the next panel you need a button which will perform a post back to the server to obtain the next panel's source HTML. (Correct me if you know a better way.)

With the WebTab from Infragistics, all of the source HTML code is sent to the client with all of the tabs. JScript is used to navigate between the various tabs. Once you have completed editing the record, you can save the data from all of the tabs. I found this to be very valuable to my application because I have over 100 fields in a single table which need to be displayed all at the same time, in some logical format or another.


>Hi Gordon
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>PMFJI, but, doesnt your suggestion imply that one needs to buy something from Infragistics while a panel is already supplied in VS.NET for free?
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>Regards,
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>Mike
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>>Why use panels when you could use the Infragistics WebTab object? And all that work happens on the client side. Just a thought.
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>>P.S. I love my WebTab, 7 pages in all, 2 of which are optional depending if I am in Edit or Add mode.
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>>>Okay, I built a base class form that hides and shows a set of panels based on the a menu option, wizard effect.
>>>Based on page selection a panel would become visible.
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>>>Well at runtime this would work perfect. On the form load I set a default panel as the one to be visible and the rest are not, very simple idea right!
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>>>Well it has cost me at least 8 hours of work, because the designer would run the form load even though you are designing.
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>>>So it would make the 3 out of the 4 pages invisible, so in the designer when I went to work on that page and pull it to front, the designer would show the drag handles but nothing would be in the panel?????
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>>>So I went looking to see what I screwed up (being a newbie), and eventually when I compared my base form to my to a co-workers, they worked differently because he didn't receive the latest additions to the framework that I was working on.
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>>>So what it came down to was the designer was making the panels invisible......there goes 8 hours I will never get back.....
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>>>I hope this helps some one else.
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>>>the trick to solving the problem is to put an "if (!this.DesignMode)" around the call to make the pages invisible.
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>>>Go figure a designer running method code@!!@!