Question

I have an update panel and a list of buttons that trigger it. I need some way to find out which button was pressed when the load method (which is caused by the triggers) goes off, but I can’t figure it out. Sender doesn’t cast into the trigger, but the update panel itself.

I need to perform some action based on which button was pressed.

Any advice?

I’m using ASP.NET / C#

<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional" OnLoad="LocationList_Load">

<Triggers>
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnLocMiddleEast" />
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnLocUSA" />
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnLocNewZealand" />
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnLocAustralia" />
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnLocEurope" />
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnLocRepublicOfIreland" />
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnLocNorthernIreland" />
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnLocWales" />
    <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnLocScotland" />

Answer 1

Check the answer I gave to this question:

Making a difference between AsyncPostbacks in nested update panels

Basically you should check the ScriptManager.AsyncPostBackSourceElementID for the trigger.