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How to hide and display asp:buttons in asp.net from code behind?

I am working on asp.net web application.
In one Page I have two asp buttons.
I want to display them in one condition otherwise I don't want to display them.
So I'm trying to do the same like this. But Its not working.
I can't find the reason behind it. Please tell me where is the issue.
To Hide Buttons
if (!IsPostBack)
{
ButtonReplaceId.Style.Add("display", "none");
ButtonAssociateRules.Style.Add("display", "none");
}
To display buttons
protected void ApplyAssociation(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Some piece of code
if(a==0)
{
ButtonAssociateRules.Style.Add("display", "block");
ButtonReplaceId.Style.Add("display", "block");
}
}
aspx for buttons
<div style ="padding-left:400px;">
<asp:Button ID="ButtonAssociateRules" runat="server" OnClick="AssociateMultipleRulesButtonClick"
CssClass="search_button_in_vm_intersection" Text="Associate Multiple Rules"
OnClientClick="return OnClientClickAssociateRewardRuleFile();" />
<asp:Button ID="ButtonReplaceId" runat="server" OnClick="ApplyReplaceIfRuleIntersects"
CssClass="search_button_in_vm_intersection" Text="Replace Previous Rules"
OnClientClick="return OnClientClickReplaceRewardRuleFile();" />
</div>
aspx of button for OnClick event ApplyAssociation()
<asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Button1" EventName="Click" />
</Triggers>
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Table runat="server" CssClass="rule_file_whole" BorderWidth="0" Style="padding-top: 30px;">
<asp:TableRow ID="MerchantRowAssociation" HorizontalAlign="Center">
<asp:TableCell>
<div style="text-align: center">
<asp:Button ID="AssociationMerchant" Text="Apply Association" runat="server" OnClick="ApplyAssociation"
CssClass="search_button_in_vm_associate1 " OnClientClick="return checkValidation()" />
</div>
</asp:TableCell>
</asp:TableRow>
</asp:Table>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>

Seeing as you are using a conditional update panel, you can try either of these after putting the buttons inside an update panel.
protected void ApplyAssociation(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Some piece of code
if (a == 0)
{
ButtonAssociateRules.Style["visibility"] = "hidden";
ButtonReplaceId.Style["visibility"] = "hidden";
myUpdatePanel.Update();
}
}
protected void ApplyAssociation(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Some piece of code
if (a == 0)
{
ButtonAssociateRules.Visible = false;
ButtonReplaceId.Visible = false;
myUpdatePanel.Update();
}
}
Here's an example of your buttons inside an update panel.
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="myUpdatePanel" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
<ContentTemplate>
<div style="padding-left:400px;">
<asp:Button ID="ButtonAssociateRules" runat="server" OnClick="AssociateMultipleRulesButtonClick"
CssClass="search_button_in_vm_intersection" Text="Associate Multiple Rules"
OnClientClick="return OnClientClickAssociateRewardRuleFile();" />
<asp:Button ID="ButtonReplaceId" runat="server" OnClick="ApplyReplaceIfRuleIntersects"
CssClass="search_button_in_vm_intersection" Text="Replace Previous Rules"
OnClientClick="return OnClientClickReplaceRewardRuleFile();" />
</div>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>

You can simple use the Visible property of Button which is more straight forward and clean.
ButtonReplaceId.Visible = false;
If this property is false, the server control is not rendered. You
should take this into account when organizing the layout of your page.
If a container control is not rendered, any controls that it contains
will not be rendered even if you set the Visible property of an
individual control to true. In that case, the individual control
returns false for the Visible property even if you have explicitly set
it to true. (That is, if the Visible property of the parent control is
set to false, the child control inherits that setting and the setting
takes precedence over any local setting.) MSDN.
You are trying to change the state of control in ajax call that is not in current UpdatePanel. Put the buttons in the same UpdatePanel then you will be able to change the state.

ButtonReplaceId.Visible = false;
ButtonAssociateRules.Visible = false;

ValidationSummary in MasterPage hide success label

I've got a ValidationSummary and SuccessLabel in the MasterPage
When the SuccessLabel has detail in it, and then the ValidationSummary then fails validation I want it to hide the SuccessLabel and only show the ValidationSummary.
<div id="ApplicationStatus" class="ValidationSummaryContainer">
<asp:Label ID="StatusLabel" CssClass="SuccessSummary" runat="server"
Visible="false"></asp:Label>
<asp:Label ID="WarningLabel" CssClass="WarningSummary" runat="server"
Visible="false"></asp:Label>
<asp:ValidationSummary ID="ErrorValidationSummary" runat="server"
CssClass="ValidationSummary" DisplayMode="List" />
<asp:CustomValidator ID="ErrorCustomValidator" runat="server"></asp:CustomValidator>
</div>
<div id="ApplicationContent" class="ApplicationContentContainer">
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MainContent" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!IsPostBack)
{
StatusLabel.Text = "Successfully loaded record";
}
}
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContentPlaceHolder" runat="server">
<asp:Textbox ID = "Text1" runat="server"/>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator id="InputTextBoxRequiredFieldValidator" runat="server"
ControlToValidate="Text1" Visible="false" CssClass="InlineNoWrap" Enabled="true">
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
<asp:Button ID = "Button1" runat="server" Text="Submit"/>
</asp:Content>
I'm trying to find a way in JavaScript to catch the validation error and hide the StatusLabel.
I don't want to have to put a javascript function on every button on every page that uses the MasterPage.
Thanks,
Alex

How about something like this:
protected void Submit(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (IsValid)
{
StatusLabel.Visible = true;
}
else
{
StatusLabel.Visible = false;
}
}

Your validation code are totally miss lot of fields.
ok now we are going your pint .
Set visible false in your label for page load event
then success time add the label text ,and set visible true
you miss control to validate and validationgroup and display fields
please see this sample

Cloning AJAX TabPanels

I have come across an interesting problem when trying to clone a template panel in my ajax tabcontainer control.
The idea is that i have a custom control on the first tab that lists some things, and to add a new thing you click the new button on the custom control, which raises an event in the control / page that contains the tabcontainer. That control / page then goes about cloning the hidden tabpanel and adding the clone to the tabcontainer.
with this markup I get what I need from both the first tab (containing the list) and any subsequent tabs (templated by the hidden tabpanel ready for cloning) ...
<asp:TabContainer ID="TabContainer1" runat="server">
<asp:TabPanel ID="ui_pnl1" HeaderText="My Panel" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<cc1:myListOfThings ID="list" runat="server" OnMyEvent="CreateTabFromTemplate" />
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:TabPanel>
<asp:TabPanel ID="TemplatePanel" runat="server" Visible="false">
<HeaderTemplate>
<span>Hello World</span><asp:LinkButton ID="ui_btnRemove" runat="server" Text="x" />
</HeaderTemplate>
<ContentTemplate>
Some content for my panel
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:TabPanel>
</asp:TabContainer>
Ok now lets assume that on the first panel in my custom control i have a button that raises the "MyEvent" event which in turn calls the method "CreateTabFromTemplate".
Now what I want to do is copy the hidden panel "TemplatePanel" and add it to the tab container.
In my code behind, the method code for adding the new tab panel to my tab container works something like this ...
protected void CreateTabFromTemplate(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// create a new tab panel
TabPanel newPanel = new TabPanel();
// instantiate the hidden content template from the hidden note panel in the new panel
ui_tpNoteCreator.ContentTemplate.InstantiateIn(newPanel);
// add the panel to the available tabs and select it
TabContainer1.Tabs.Add(newPanel);
TabContainer1.ActiveTab = newPanel;
}
All looking good so far ... but i missed something ... I haven't templated the new tabpanels header ... it seems that all I can do is set the text.
Following this example : http://forums.asp.net/t/1108611.aspx/1 I can do what i'm trying to do but I don't want to write a class that defines my header template I want to instantiate an instance of my markup version and pass that instance to my new panel.
I'm not convinced this can be done ... is this a bug with the control or did i miss something ?!?!
Any ideas?

It turns out i was going about it the wrong way ...
Essentially theres a difference between assigning templates and the databinding process, it's still not perfect because of the data im trying to pass in to my tab templates but here's the basic principal ...
Markup :
<asp:TabContainer ID="TabContainer1" runat="server">
<asp:TabPanel ID="ui_pnl1" HeaderText="My Panel" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<cc1:myListOfThings ID="list" runat="server" OnMyEvent="CreateTabFromTemplate" />
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:TabPanel>
<asp:TabPanel ID="TemplatePanel" runat="server" Visible="false">
<HeaderTemplate>
<span>Hello World</span><asp:LinkButton ID="ui_btnRemove" runat="server" Text="x" />
</HeaderTemplate>
<ContentTemplate>
Some content for my panel
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:TabPanel>
</asp:TabContainer>
Code behind :
protected void CreateTabFromTemplate(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// create a new tab panel
TabPanel newPanel = new TabPanel();
newPanel.HeaderTemplate = TemplatePanel.HeaderTemplate;
newPanel.ContentTemplate = TemplatePanel.ContentTemplate;
// add the panel to the available tabs and select it
TabContainer1.Tabs.Add(newPanel);
TabContainer1.ActiveTab = newPanel;
}
protected void TabContainer_DataBinding(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
foreach(TabPanel panel in TabContainer.Tabs)
{
//identify if this is the correct tab
if(correctTab)
{
// this will find a control anywhere on the panel (eg in both header and content templates)
Label label = panel.FindControl("ControlID") as Label;
label.Text = "Some Business Object Value";
}
}
}

I just tested the following which works as far as I can tell.
Markup:
<asp:TabContainer ID="TabContainer1" runat="server" ViewStateMode="Enabled">
<asp:TabPanel ID="ui_pnl1" HeaderText="My Panel" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Button ID="btnAddPanel" runat="server" Text="Add Panel" />
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:TabPanel>
<asp:TabPanel ID="TemplatePanel" runat="server" Visible ="false">
<HeaderTemplate>
<span>Hello World</span><asp:LinkButton ID="ui_btnRemove" runat="server" Text="X" />
</HeaderTemplate>
<ContentTemplate>
<p>Test Content</p>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:TabPanel>
</asp:TabContainer>
Code behind:
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.btnAddPanel.Click += new EventHandler(btnAddPanel_Click);
}
void btnAddPanel_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TabPanel newPanel = new TabPanel();
newPanel.HeaderTemplate = TemplatePanel.HeaderTemplate;
TemplatePanel.ContentTemplate.InstantiateIn(newPanel);
TabContainer1.Tabs.Add(newPanel);
TabContainer1.ActiveTab = newPanel;
}
}

Getting control value when switching a view as part of a multiview

I have the following code in my aspx page:
<asp:Button id="display_button" runat="server" Text="Display" OnClick="Button1_Click" />
<asp:Button id="edit_button" runat="server" Text="Edit" OnClick="Button2_Click" />
<asp:Button id="save_button" runat="server" Text="Save" OnClick="Button3_Click" Visible="false" />
<asp:MultiView id="MultiView1" runat="server" ActiveViewIndex="0">
<asp:View id="View1" runat="server">
<asp:FormView id="view_program" runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<%# Eval("status").ToString().Trim() %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:FormView>
</asp:View>
<asp:View id="View2" runat="server">
<asp:FormView id="edit_program" runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:DropDownList id="p_status" runat="server">
</asp:DropDownList>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:FormView>
</asp:View>
</asp:MultiView>
and the following functions attached to the buttons in the code-behind page:
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MultiView1.SetActiveView(View1);
save_button.Visible = false;
}
protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MultiView1.SetActiveView(View2);
save_button.Visible = true;
}
protected void Button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DropDownList p_status = edit_program.FindControl("p_status") as DropDownList;
var status = p_status.SelectedValue;
Label1.Text = status;
//save_button.Visible = false;
//MultiView1.SetActiveView(View1);
}
The idea being, that there are two views, the first displays the information, if the user wants to edit the information, they click button 2 which changes the view to the edit mode, which has the controls (drop downs, text fields, etc). It also makes the 'save' button appear.
What I am trying to make happen is, when the save button is clicked, it will grab all of the values from the various fields, update the object and then update the database. Then it would flip back to view1 with the updated info.
Problem is, as you can see in void Button3_Click, I try grab the values from the control, p_status, but it only gets the original value. example, the menu has three values, 'Green', 'Yellow', and 'Red'. Green is the default value and is selected when view2 is displayed. However, if I select Yellow or Red, and click save, rather than the label being updated to display one of those two values, it always displays Green.
Any ideas?
edit: page load function per request below
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
Person myPerson = new Person(userid);
TestProgram myProgram = new TestProgram(id);
List<TestProgram> program = new List<TestProgram> { myProgram };
view_program.DataSource = program;
view_program.DataBind();
edit_program.DataSource = program;
edit_program.DataBind();
DropDownList p_status = edit_program.FindControl("p_status") as DropDownList;
p_status.Items.Add(new ListItem("Green", "Green"));
p_status.Items.Add(new ListItem("Yellow", "Yellow"));
p_status.Items.Add(new ListItem("Red", "Red"));
//myProgram.Status = "Red";
p_status.SelectedValue = myProgram.Status;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Response.Write(ex);
Label1.Text = ex.ToString();
}
}

Whoops...missed a little someting.. my
bad
when asp.net is not behaving as expected this is your best friend: MSDN: ASP.NET PAGE LIFECYLE
Upon Further Review...
there are a couple of problems here. your drop down list control with an id of "p_status" is contained inside a multiview (I forgot about what that meant...) you need to move the code to populate p_status into pre-render after checking to see if Multiveiw1.ActiveView = View2. Since it will always be a post back you need to bind values late in the page cycle

Using a Timer post back, which controller to use that doesn't post back to server?

Being new to ASP.NET I have run into trouble building my own Whack-a-mole program. I think my problem comes from using Buttons, which by themselves send post backs to the server, making the software unusable. The looks are in place, making new buttons show up in the grid, in different places by random. However, when a button is pushed – the score doesn’t change (which I feel is strange).
Not so strange is that the Button doesn’t work since it sends post back to the server – reloading the UpdatePanel. I think I should use a different controller like the CheckBox and style it hard using CSS (which isn’t a problem). Is this the correct way to go, or should I make use of JavaScript AJAX instead?
Note to self: This technique shouldn’t be used in a public application since it put too much unwanted pressure on the web server. Use in test and learning only!
Thanx for listening!
<%# Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master"
AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Whack-a-mole.aspx.cs"
Inherits="Whack_a_mole" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content" ContentPlaceHolderID="cphContent" runat="server">
<h1>Whack-a-Mole</h1>
<asp:ScriptManager ID="smgrTime" runat="server" />
<asp:Timer ID="Timer" OnTick="Timer_Tick" runat="server" Interval="2000" />
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="updpButtons" runat="server" UpdateMode="Always">
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Timer" />
</Triggers>
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="lblPoints" runat="server" Text="Score: 0p" />
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" BorderStyle="Outset"
BorderWidth="3px" CssClass="mole" Text="Mole"
onclick="Button1_Click" />
<asp:Button ID="Button2" runat="server" BorderStyle="Outset"
BorderWidth="3px" CssClass="mole" Text="Mole"
onclick="Button2_Click" />
<asp:Button ID="Button3" runat="server" BorderStyle="Outset"
BorderWidth="3px" CssClass="mole" Text="Mole"
onclick="Button3_Click" />
<!-- continues the same way down to Button25 -->
<asp:Button ID="Button25" runat="server" BorderStyle="Outset"
BorderWidth="3px" CssClass="mole" Text="Mole"
onclick="Button25_Click" />
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</asp:Content>
Excerpt from the Code file:
// points vairable
private int points;
// Property for points
public int Points
{
get { return points; }
set { points = value; }
}
protected void Timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Random random = new Random();
int visible;
foreach (Button button in buttonList)
{
visible = random.Next(1, 10);
if (visible == 3)
button.Visible = true;
else
button.Visible = false;
}
lblPoints.Text = "Score: " + Points + " p";
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Points = Points + 1;
}

Where is your Points variable declared?
I think it might be a member of the Whack_a_mole WebForm class and that is why it doesn't update. The instance of the WebForm is only used for 1 Postback, and then it is destroyed.
But more important, for a game like this you should use JavaScript or SilverLight.