So... where are these textboxes actually created? Are they WebServer controls, or just HTML "input" fields?

If they are Webserver controls, ask yourself why?

If they aren't, then get the values out of the Response object.

When is "filldata" executed?

so how do you think the textbox value should be updated if it is a server control.

The sequence of my actions is:

1. Webserver control - textboxes get their text by a stored procedure call.

2. The textbox is editable and the user can change the textbox.text value

3. I need to get the value from step 2 and update database

Please advise.

Thanks in advance

When the user submits the form, the values from the form will be inside the Response object. You can get the values there, if you like.

The ASP.NET Page Lifecycle goes through a series of discrete steps, well-documented on my site and elsewhere on the web.

Any static web controls, meaning, those controls that you built into the page via the Visual Studio toolbox/designer, are re-created, and the values from the Response object bound to them as part of the LoadPostBackData stage in the lifecycle.

If these textboxes are dynamically created, via some server-side event procedure, then the controls need to be re-created, by you, in every code path that might need them and their values, prior to the LoadPostBackData stage, so that they can be properly bound.

Thus my original question, which you never answered and isn't displayed in your code:

So... where are these textboxes actually created?

Also, examine your code-path. How are you preventing your step "1" from occuring when the user submits the form? From the code you posted, evidently you're calling "filldata" on Page_Load. Thus, everytime you run your code, you're going to ignore what the user entered, and instead go get what's currently in the database. I hinted at that in my first response, as well.

Before I can help any further, you need to re-read and think through the answers you've already been given.

in case any newbie like me encounter this problem and dont understand the above hints
the solution is....


Private Sub Page_Load(....)
'Put user code to initialize the page here

...
...
'only load data into textbox when the page is first load
If Not (Page.IsPostBack)
{
call filldata(...)
}

End Sub

simply set EnableViewState Property of textbox as FALSE

That is not a correct answer. ViewState doesn't have anything to do with the value of HTML form objects and their corresponding server controls, only with the state of certain server controls that do not render as HTML Form objects.

I must say, your strategy of being Socratic with your assistance is rude.
Most developers are under time restraints, and a straight out answer to his question will be absorbed and remembered by the guy.

But NO, you have to be rude and condensending.

Wonder if you ever remember when you were a newbie?

Hey buddie, you need to put your first part of your data within an IsPostBack portion. The reason why it is becoming the old data is that when you postback to the server, it still refreshes the page which plays page_Load once again, where you set the t1 and t2 values. So they are being reset. You need to put your page_load information into a Page.IsPostBack statement:
Now the page_load information doesn't re-execute when you postback to the server, which keeps your information in the textboxes.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to PM me.

And now I just realize this post is years old... thanks for bringing up the old post to complain... psh.