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A Guide to the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control : Steve C. Orr

Monday, July 28 2008

Creating a wizard in ASP.NET 1.x had the potential to be a bit tricky. The first thought would likely be to put each wizard step on its own page. However, this has many drawbacks, such as code (and user interface) duplication and maintaining state between each page. Therefore, most Web developers tended to lean toward keeping each wizard step in its own panel within a single page. Each panel is shown and hidden in succession, with only the panel representing the current step being visible at any one time. Because the page posts back to itself between each step, all data is kept in ViewState automatically by ASP.NET, negating the need to manually store user-entered values between each wizard step. Of course, this technique had some downsides, too, such as needing to manage all those different panels at design time. Although not difficult, it certainly makes the design-time appearance of a page much different than the run-time appearance, as all the panels are visible at once at design time. It also required managing many redundant Back and Next buttons for each step of the wizard....

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A Guide to the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control : Steve C. Orr
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