RadAjaxManager with multiple user control ajax request handlers?

[Jay]

So, I have a page with multiple user controls. There is a RadAjaxManager on the page. Each user control needs to make ajaxRequests from javascript, and I would like each control to handle that itself. Is this possible?

So, for instance, I have control1 with the following in its code behind:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    RadAjaxManager manager = RadAjaxManager.GetCurrent(Page);
    manager.AjaxRequest += new RadAjaxControl.AjaxRequestDelegate(Control1_AjaxRequest);
}

and control2 with

protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    RadAjaxManager manager = RadAjaxManager.GetCurrent(Page);
    manager.AjaxRequest += new RadAjaxControl.AjaxRequestDelegate(Control2_AjaxRequest);
}

and in javascript, control1 does

$find("<%= RadAjaxManager.GetCurrent(Page).ClientID %>").ajaxRequest(dataString);

and I end up in Control2_AjaxRequest rather than Control1_AjaxRequest.

Is what I'm trying to do possible? If so, how? I'm currently trying to do this by adding a RadAjaxPanel to each control and invoking ajaxRequest on it, but I'm running into some code block issues with this that weren't there with RadAjaxManager.

[Viktor Tachev]

Hello Jay,

When using RadAjaxManager you should have only one control on the highest hierarchy page. Usually this would be a MasterPage. Then, you can handle the AjaxRequest event for that control and implement specific logic depending on the passed arguments.

The code snippet below outlines the approach:

protected void RadAjaxManager1_AjaxRequest(object sender, AjaxRequestEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Argument == "control1_request")
    {
        // handle request from control 1
    }
    else if (e.Argument == "control2_request")
    {
        // handle request from control 2
    }
}

For additional information on using AjaxManager with UserControls please refer to the following articles.

• http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/aspnet-ajax/controls/ajaxmanager/how-to/radajax-and-masterpage
• http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/aspnet-ajax/controls/ajaxmanager/how-to/radajax-and-webusercontrols

Regards,
Viktor Tachev
Telerik by Progress

[Jay]

Thanks, Viktor. That's the approach I ended up with too, I was just wondering if there was something I was overlooking.