Coleman's .Net Nuggets

I've been playing around with the validation controls and atlas…

The Atlas toolkit provides a Confirm extender… it is less than desirable. Canceling seems to have some event bubbling side-effects. The 2.0 OnClientClick is used… but a little differently. In the past, I have gotten away with OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you really really sure?')"… that doesn't seem to be the case… when you say ok, true is returned and client-side validation is not raised... therefore, the following nugget seems to play nice with all things considered…

<asp:Button ID="btnSomeAction" ValidationGroup="someAction" runat="server" Text="Submit" CssClass="button" OnClientClick="if (!confirm('Complete your action?')){return false;}" OnClick="btnSomeAction_Click" CausesValidation="true" UseSubmitBehavior="false" />

You may be saying, Coleman - Atlas provides mechanisms for validation… well yes and no.. Their examples show a lot of hand wiring… sources recommend staying with the 2.0 validation control. It would be a good bet that versions of controls down the road will just plug-in with the ATF... but until then, this seems to work... I'm not sure if it is a bug in the ANET or the ATF... but a gotch nonetheless.

Regards

Coleman