Response.Redirect to same page without Page Refresh

Question

I need to do a response.redirect to the same page. How can I do this without the page "refreshing" or "flashing"? I can't use updatepanels because, this is a search website and I want the user to be able to use the browser's back button. I have some search filters on the page, and each time a filter is clicked, I do a resposne.redirect (to the same page) with the appropriate query strings.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The only way you can do this without a "flicker" or "refresh" if you will is to do an AJAX call and update all your necessary fields. Otherwise Response.Redirect() will flicker your page.

Answer 2

Have a look at the EnableHistory property of the ScriptManager control. Introduced in .NET 3.5 SP1, it allows the browser to maintain a history points for partial postbacks. This means the user can navigate through these history points through use of the forward/back buttons on their browser.