tree view + no postback + update panel

setup:

master page - content page layout

On my content page I want two update panels, one to contain a tree view dynamically generated from a database and the other to contain dynamically generated data (also pulled from a database) based on what is selected in the tree view. It is my understanding that tree view cannot be in an update panel. What is the best strategy for accomplishing this? I don't want a postback to be performed when an item is selected in the tree view. In other words, I don't want the entire page (form) refreshed just because an item in the tree view is selected.

Thanks in advance for any help.

If your treeview doesn't change the contents after the PageLoad, you may be able to have it in an update panel. We found that it doesn't work well if you add nodes to the treeview when you click a parent node, but if you load the full treeview it may be ok. If you need to dynamically add nodes as you click, you would probably need something like the TreeView that telerik has. We were looking at that one until we decided to do our page differently, and that control is not free, but seems to work nice.

The 2nd update panel would have a grid view in it. From the grid view I would add or edit content. If I added content the tree view would need to be refreshed without a full page postback to display the newly added item.

From the sounds of it, this isn't possible with strictly MS controls at the moment.

I just finished this very thing. The page starts with just a pulldown and then based on that value creates a Treeview dynamically without refreshing the page. Then clicking on a node causes another update panel to refresh with specific information.

Pretty convoluted with half Telerik and half MS. The full Telerik approach (Treeview and Update panel) looks easier, but we are using MS AJAX.

My older version of the Treeview (5.3) does not work with MS update panel, so I need to upgrade. I'm not too happy about it, but it seems to work well.

WISH LIST: A direct JavaScript method to postback to an MS update panel. As it is this seems to be the best approach:

http://forums.asp.net/thread/1541012.aspx

I followed the instructions on that thread and I have my update panel refreshing from javascript code. How do I call a javascript function when a tree node is clicked?

in the Telerik Treeview there is a property called "onBeforeNodeClick" and you can set that to the name of a javaScript function to fire when a node is clicked and before postback.

So, I did

myTreeNode.NavigateUrl ="javascript:postBackHiddenField('hardcodedhiddenfieldcontrol','" + uniqueIdentifierOfTreeNode +"')"function postBackHiddenField(hiddenFieldID, clickedID){alert("works");var hiddenField = $get(hiddenFieldID);__doPostBack(hiddenFieldID,'');}

I want to use the uniqueIdentifierOfTreeNode in order to modify the select paramter of a gridview in the update panel I'm refreshing from __doPostBack. I have no idea. Any help is appreciated. Is this the best approach to take even?

I forgot to mention the postback and refresh of the update panel is working as I have a label refreshed with the system time.
Nevermind, it looks like I came up with a reasonable solution that works.