asp.net...real time data...how to refresh the controls every once in a second

[bnathvbdotnet]

I have about 20 text boxes on a web form and the data source is a oracle table. the content in the table changes every once in a second. So I need to refresh the contents on the web form every once in a second. How can I achieve this?

thank you
nath

[Wydok]

You can actually do this by adding a META tag to the HTML of the web form within the header.

<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="1; URL=yoururl">

But you might want to ask yourself if you really want to do this. If the page reloads once a second, that is a tremendous amount of hits your your webserver. Users may also get irritating that the page refreshes every second, which may not give them enough time to read the page.

Perhaps you should actually only refresh the webpage once every 5 or 10 seconds or so.