Question

I am using:

Response.Redirect(Request.RawUrl);

to force a postback on my web page. However, the path of execution in the code is as if the page were loading for the first time. How do I cause just an ordinary postback?

Any advice is appreciated.

Regards.

EDIT:

This post seems to be attracting a lot of negativity. I got this method from a Stock Overflow post after a Google search for forcing a postback. So the downvoters should probably take out their frustrations on that post instead of mine.

To clear up some of the misapprehensions about my question:

I have an event Button_Click that contains logic in the method body — obviously. However the flow of execution of the code goes like this:

Button_Click –> Page_Load (IsPostBack == true) –> Button_Click body –> execution ends.

So my problem is that none of the logic in the body of Button_Click is showing up on the page because the postback is done before any of the code in the body of Button_Click is executed.

EDIT:

Here is the event:

protected void RedoEdits_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // Goes to Page_Load here with IsPostBack == true
    string trendsFileLocation = currDir + "\\" + reportDir + "\\" + trendsFile;
    string messagesFileLocation = currDir + "\\" + reportDir + "\\" + messagesFile;
    if (File.Exists(trendsFileLocation))
    {
        File.Delete(trendsFileLocation);
    }
    if (File.Exists(messagesFileLocation))
    {
        File.Delete(messagesFileLocation);
    }
    trendsXML.Clear();
    editMode = "redo";
}

Code snippet for IsPostBack == true:

if (editMode.Equals("redo"))
{
    editMode = "";
    ViewReport_Click(null, null);
}

The code snippet never gets exercised because the postback happens first, skips the snippet because editMode != redo, then finishes with the body of RedoEdits_Click which finally sets editMode == redo but since the postback has already happened we don’t get to ViewReport_Click.

And btw, editMode is a session variable so it persists.

Answer 1

I needed the page reload to restore my original, unedited, HTML. The process of editing the table replaced some InnerHTML and I needed to start over to redo the edits. So I just moved the logic necessary for redoing the edits in the code for IsPostBack != true and stayed with Response.Redirect(Request.RawUrl). Works like a charm.