I noticed recently in my ASP.NET web application that if I set my User Agent to an empty string (using a FireFox plug-in to spoof the user agent), then ASP.NET will not generate the javascript required to perform postbacks. More specifically, if you try calling the __doPostBack(a, b) function from your javascript, you will get an error saying that function is undefined.
Is it OK to use __doPostBack() or it is not recommended because it is generated from ASP.Net and we are not sure if they changed it in a next version of ASP.Net.
I’m trying to achieve a manual postback to trigger code not attached to a control. I don’t want to use AJAX PageMethods as I need to reference certain controls during the postback, and want the result to update to a gridview on the page.
Like many others, I’m trying to invoke a .NET control’s server-side event from JavaScript.