Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

velio — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:51:01 GMT

Hey,

The code is broken.

Opening curly brace of function body is missing and it gives JS error on the page.

Looking forward for the proper code.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

jamesche — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:12:08 GMT

Sorry about that, Velio. Must have been a stray keystroke when I transferred it over. I've fixed it.

Jim

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

velio — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:25:49 GMT

Great job and tremendous piece of code, Jim.

Initial usage and tests shows fantastic improvements on UpdatePanel performance.

Regards

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

jamesche — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:04:19 GMT

Thanks, Velio. The credit goes to our product group. I appreciate the update.

Jim

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

trung pham — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:22:06 GMT

This is really great. Yes it save a lot of loading page in update panel. Thank you very much

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

PeteB — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:36:41 GMT

This is fantastic, my web page works like a dream now.

I have been delaying a release of a whole batch of changes due to slow postbacks and you have just saved me from rewriting the whole page using webservices and other time consuming developments. Great stuff.

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

peter cefalu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:47:45 GMT

I am getting a js error 'nodetype' is null or not an object. Any thoughts?

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

jamesche — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:38:13 GMT

Peter,

Do you have a URL or can you share your page?

Jim

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

Peter Cefalu — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:47:09 GMT

No I do not. I did see that you had updated code in your Knowledge Base article and changed it. That fixed the error but my update panels seem even slower. I am not even hitting a DB or anything. Just updating labels with user selections in a form, kind of a summary of what was selected. We use IE6 as this company has not even updated to IE7 yet. Although it is slow in IE7 and 8 as well. Probably just my code. It is instantaneous on my development machine. I was surprised at how slow it is on the live server. It kind of makes it useless now. Oh well, live and learn.

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

jamesche — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:54:56 GMT

Couple of things, Peter. First of all, if the code is entered correctly, you shouldn't get an error whether you're using the latest updated code or the previous code. All I can guess is that there must have been a typo.

If you are still experiencing slowness, it's not caused by this issue. If you want assistance in tracking it down, you can open a support incident with us and we can help.

Jim

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

Peter Cefalu — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:03:48 GMT

Well Jim,

I triple checked the code and kept getting the error. It obviously did not like something in the page. There was no typo, but thanks for assuming I am an idiot. The latest version does not throw the error. I do agree that something else is causing the slowness. I am afraid I cannot share any code with you to help fix this problem. Thanks for the offer. And it was a good idea to remove the code from here if it was not being updated.

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

jamesche — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:09:04 GMT

Sorry you took it that way, Peter. I certainly wasn't assuming you were an idiot. Because the code was tested thoroughly and is in use by many people without any errors, I surmised that you might have a typo. I would never say someone is an idiot for having a typo! I've had pelnty of them myself. :) Everyone does.

We are updating the code if we can improve on it, but we wanted to make sure to have it in only one place so that it didn't have to be updated twice. The code is available in the KB article linked on this post.

Jim

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

Peter Cefalu — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:13:17 GMT

I really did not take it that way, just my dry humor I guess. I'm just really bummed that it did not help me. I showed the boss the functionality on my machine (where it is super fast) and he loved it. Now it is pretty much useless on the live version until I speed it up. I'll keep checking for updates though. Thanks.

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

jamesche — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:40:43 GMT

Understood, Peter. Funny thing is that when I originally posted this blog entry, I had a typo in the code. :)

Yeah, this code is designed to work around a very specific issue. If you don't see slowness in Firefox, that's an indicator that it may be this issue.

We have a lot of skill in troubleshooting performance issues like yours, so if you reach a dead end, open a case and we can help out!

Jim

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

Volodymyr Goncharov — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:09:06 GMT

It is very crucial to put the JavaScript "immediately before the closing </body> element". In other cases it may not work.

Thanks for the fix!

re: Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

Honus — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:02 GMT

I am so happy I want to cry! Thanks for solving this life-long (or at least the past year) dilemna.