Question

I use the below code to auto refresh the page every 60 seconds via the AJAX tools in VS2010. Works perfectly.

<asp:MultiView ID="MultiView1" runat="server">
  <asp:View ID="View1" runat="server">
    <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server" ViewStateMode="Enabled" UpdateMode="Conditional">
      <ContentTemplate>
         ASP.NET/HTML Code
             <p>
             <asp:Button ID="Button2" runat="server" Text="Click here" OnClick="Button2_Click" /> to disable the pages automatic refresh.</p>
      </ContentTemplate>
      <Triggers>
         <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Timer1" EventName="Tick" />
      </Triggers>
    </asp:UpdatePanel>
    <asp:Timer ID="Timer1" runat="server" Interval="60000">
    </asp:Timer>
  </asp:View>
  <asp:View ID="View2" runat="server">
  etc.
</asp:MultiView>

I want to include a button on the asp.net page to cancel the auto refresh.

I tried to include the below but when I clicked the button, it didn’t work. The below is the Code Behind for an OnClick event for a Button. The asp.net code is in the above code.

protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
     Timer1.Interval = 0;
}

Where am I going wrong? Is this even a way to do this or do I need to go another route in order to allow the user to cancel the auto page refresh?

Answer 1

Thanks to PeterJ I have found the solution. I modified the code and since I clicked it the page has not refreshed. The issue was with my code behind for the button OnClick event. I had:

Timer1.Interval = 0;

When I should have had:

Timer1.Enabled = false;