Best Practise

[GW]

Hello,

Been using Visual Studio 2005, SQL express 2005 and C# for last two weeks,
coming from 5 years of Dreamweaver, Classic ASP VBScript and MySQL.

Anyway, my first project involves a validated form with 15 fields.

I have the structure as follows:


Default.aspx
form.ascx
formCode.cs

I was wondering the best way to handle the submitted form after data is
saved in my database table. In classic ASP I would normally do a
response.redirect to the Thankyou.asp file with a message indicating the
enquiry has been received.

I was wondering if there is an easy way not to have to create an additional
ASPX file, and simply hide the form.ascx web control and show for example
thankyouResponse.ascx ? Another idea is to use a Label control, and simply
populate it with text after the data has been saved, but I would prefer to
load an ASCX file,as I have need to run quite a complex piece of SQL which
will determine the exact message to display.

Any general ideas appreciated. I must admit to being slightly overwhelmed
at the scope of how different .NET is to classic ASP. The object orientated
versus Inline coding is proving a lot to get my head around.

Cheers,

G.

 

[Guest]

Good question. You can try putting your form fields etc. inside a Panel, and
upon success, set its visibility propery to false. Same with any other
controls that you want to display / hide.
Peter

 

[GW]

Thanks Peter,

I will have a go and let you know how it works.

Gary.