Exclude are from UpdatePanel

Is there a way to exclude an area from the UpdatePanel?

I ask because I have a usercontrol that has a StepWizard and one of the steps has a file upload. The page that contains the usercontrol has an UpdatePanel that wraps the usercontrol.

The same issue + suggestion ishere.

"I made something named PopupCallback feature for popups calling a server side method on it's opener."

Could you elaborate on this? I'm not really sure what you are doing.

I can't believe this ability wasn't built in to Atlas...hopefully future versions will look at this.

Well you probably have been into the scenario where you have this "Oh crap, I saved something in my popup, now I want the opener page to rebind is grid, to show that the changes were reflected!"
And this should be done without any nasty hacks like window.opener.document.getElementById("fuglyHack").click();

So what I did was to make something a bit more elegant:

First off, I should make it a singleton control that has to exist on Page (like ScriptManager), now I have it embedded in the actual page:

using System;using System.Text;using System.Collections;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.Data;using System.Configuration;using System.Web;using System.Web.Security;using System.Web.UI;using System.Web.UI.WebControls;using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;namespace SomeMysticCompany.Web.SomeWebProject.SiteCore{/// <summary> /// Summary description for BasePage /// </summary>public abstract class BasePage : System.Web.UI.Page, IPostBackEventHandler {private static readonly object EventCommand =new object();public event CommandEventHandler PopUpCallback { add {base.Events.AddHandler( EventCommand,value ); } remove {base.Events.RemoveHandler( EventCommand,value ); } }protected override void OnPreRender( EventArgs e ) {this.Page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(typeof( Page ),"PopUpCallback","function BasePage_PopupPostBack( argument ) { __doPostBack('__Page', argument); }",true );base.OnPreRender( e ); }public void SetCloseScript() {this.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(typeof( Page ),"close","window.close();",true ); }public void SetPopupCallbackScript(string commandName,params object[] arguments ) {this.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(typeof( Page ),string.Format("PopupCallback_{0}", commandName ),this.GetPopupPostBackReference( commandName, arguments ),true ); }public string GetPopupPostBackReference(string commandName,params object[] arguments ) {object[] data =new object[ 2 ]; data[ 0 ] = commandName; data[ 1 ] = arguments;return string.Format("window.opener.BasePage_PopupPostBack('{0}');", Server.HtmlEncode( Util.GetBase64String( data ) ) ); }#region IPostBackEventHandler Memberspublic void RaisePostBackEvent(string eventArgument ) { CommandEventHandler handler =base.Events[ EventCommand ]as CommandEventHandler;if ( handler ==null )return;object[] data = Util.GetDataByBase64ObjectString( Server.HtmlDecode( eventArgument ) )as object[];if ( data ==null )return; CommandEventArgs args =new CommandEventArgs( data[ 0 ]as string, ( data.Length > 1 ) ? data[ 1 ] :null ); handler(this, args ); }#endregion }}

That's the first piece of code. Now, to get a reference to create a popup callback script you just call
"SetPopupCallbackScript", or just use "GetPopupPostBackReference" if you want it on a client click or something.

Now, the interesting part is the server side HANDLER of the callback... what happens is that when you execute the script returned from these methods, you will set a serialized object array on the window.opener and submit.
The only thing you need to do is to hook up to the event exposed:

// Some user control or whateverprotected override void OnInit( EventArgs e ){this.Page.PopUpCallback +=new CommandEventHandler( Page_PopUpCallback );base.OnInit( e );}private void Page_PopUpCallback(object sender, CommandEventArgs e ){if ( e.CommandName !="GetData" )return;this.LoadData();}

This will call "LoadData" if you have the popup executing the script:

// In popup, actually outputting script to raise event on openerprivate void Finish(){this.Page.SetPopupCallbackScript("GetData" );}

Is this clear to you? This provides a bit more clean way to pass data without losing it's integrity.
Sorry, referencing this.Page instead of base is just stupid, I am just so used to doing that, replace it!

I'll have to take some time to look it over. I'm actually trying to exclude a file upload control from a step wizard. I don't usually code at this level but I think I see how it's working.

Thanks for working with me!