I have a web form that has 1 button(add to cart). If the user clicks the button then obviously the button's onClick method is called. Inside that method I update the database and I set the "add to cart" button to Not Visible The problem occurs when the user refreshes the page after the "add to cart" button has clicked. The item is added to the cart twice. I thought that once refresh was clicked on the browser the form's pageLoad function would be called. This doesnt look like the case. How do I stop the database being updated by refreshing from the browser. Thanks

If the user refreshes the page and reposts a POST with a still-valid viewstate, that counts the same as if they had just hit back and hit the button again.

If you're storing the basket in a session variable (or a DB, etc), it's going to get the product added twice.

The Page_Load event ALWAYS gets called when the page is loaded, before any of the other events get fired. The page propery IsPostBack gets set if the page was a postback.

Normally it's common to see

private void Page_Load(Event e) {  if (! IsPostBack) {    // stuff  }}

You can't really stop this from happening. If the user resubmits the page, it's their own silly fault.

Of course you could redirect the browser after you've added an item, instead of showing the basket as a post result - but it won't really solve the problem. Using "back" and resubmitting will still add the product again.

Mark

Well, there are 2 tricks:
1. Use Server.Redirect(...) to forward the user to some sort of confirmation page. (Many sites do this)
2. Set a user (session) variable to mark the action. then first check this mark before acting upon the submit.

The IsPostback isn't meant to be used like this. Many times it won't even work because the submit won't be the first postback.

Cheers