UpdatePanel Control

UpdatePanel control is a central part of ASP.NET AJAX functionality. It is used with ScriptManager control to enable partial rendering of the page. You must be aware that partial page rendering reduces the need for synchronous postbacks and complete page updates when a part of the page need to be updated.

There are bunch of properties and method associated with UpdatePanel control but I am going to show few properties that are oftenly used.

ChildControlsCreated	Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the server control's child control have been created.
ChildrenAsTriggers	Gets or sets a value that indicates whether postback from immediate child controls of an UpdatePanel control updates the panel's content.
ClientID	Gets the server control identifier generated by ASP.NET
ContentTemplate	This is the must use property of the UpdatePanel control. Gets or sets the template that defines the content of the UpdatePanel control. You need to place content of the page that you want to be in the UpdatePanel inside this.
EnableTheming	Gets or sets a value that indicates whether themes apply to this control.
EnableViewState	Gets or sets a value (true/false) that indicates whether the server control persists its and its child control view state.
IsInPartialRendering	Gets or sets a value (true/false) that indicates whether UpdatePanel control is being updated as a result of an asynchornous postbacks.
RenderMode	Gets or sets a value (Block/Inline) that indicates whether content is enclosed with HTML div (block) or span (inline).
Triggers	Gets an UpdatePanelTriggerCollection object that contains AsyncPostBackTrigger and PostBackTrigger objects that were registered for the UpdatePanel control.
UpdateMode	Gets or sets a value (Always/Conditional) that indicates when an UpdatePanel controls content is updated. Always: Update the content of the UpdatePanel irrespective any postback. Conditional: Update the content of the UpdatePanel when control triggers associated with this UpdatePanel.

DEMO : UpdatePanel

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Try using Edit/Delete and notice whole page is not refreshing

Delete?

Delete

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Download Sample project with Source Code

// Update Panel
<asp:UpdatePanel runat="Server" ID="UpdatePanel1" UpdateMode="Conditional">
    // Content Template, You can put whatever content you want, 
    // any event fires inside this block will update this block content only 
    <ContentTemplate>
    
        <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" Caption="Try using Edit/Delete and notice whole page is not refreshing"
            AllowPaging="True" AllowSorting="True" AutoGenerateEditButton="true" DataKeyNames="AutoID"
            PageSize="5" CellPadding="2" CellSpacing="1" EmptyDataText="<b>Sorry, There are no records to show in GridView. </b>">
            <Columns>
                <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Delete?">
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="lnk1" runat="server" Text="Delete" OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you sure to Delete?')"
                            CommandName="Delete"></asp:LinkButton>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>
            </Columns>
        </asp:GridView>
        
        // SqlDataSource, the datasource of the GridView
        <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString='<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnStr %>'
            SelectCommand="Select * FROM SampleForTutorials ORDER BY [Name]" DeleteCommand="Delete FROM SampleForTutorials WHERE AutoID = @AutoID"
            UpdateCommand="UPDATE SampleForTutorials SET Name = @Name, Address = @Address, Phone = @Phone, City = @City WHERE AutoID = @AutoID">
            <DeleteParameters>
                <asp:Parameter Name="AutoID" />
            </DeleteParameters>
            <UpdateParameters>
                <asp:Parameter Name="AutoID" Type="Int32" />
                <asp:Parameter Name="Name" Type="string" Size="50" />
                <asp:Parameter Name="Address" Type="string" Size="200" />
                <asp:Parameter Name="Phone" Type="string" />
                <asp:Parameter Name="City" Type="string" Size="20" />
            </UpdateParameters>
        </asp:SqlDataSource>
        
    </ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>