How to detect page refresh in .net

Question

I have a Button_click event. While refreshing the page the previous Postback event is triggering again. How do I identify the page refresh event to prevent the Postback action?

I tried the below code to solve it. Actually, I am adding a visual webpart in a SharePoint page. Adding webpart is a post back event so !postback is always false each time I'm adding the webpart to page, and I'm getting an error at the else loop because the object reference is null.

if (!IsPostBack){
    ViewState["postids"] = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
    Cache["postid"] = ViewState["postids"].ToString();
}
else{
    if (ViewState["postids"].ToString() != Cache["postid"].ToString()){
        IsPageRefresh = true;
    }
    Cache["postid"] = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
    ViewState["postids"] = Cache["postid"].ToString();
}

How do I solve this problem?

Answer 1

using the viewstate worked a lot better for me as detailed here. Basically:

bool IsPageRefresh = false;

//this section of code checks if the page postback is due to genuine submit by user or by pressing "refresh"
if (!IsPostBack)     
{
    ViewState["ViewStateId"] = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
    Session["SessionId"] = ViewState["ViewStateId"].ToString();
}
else
{
    if (ViewState["ViewStateId"].ToString() != Session["SessionId"].ToString())
    {
        IsPageRefresh = true;
    }

    Session["SessionId"] = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
    ViewState["ViewStateId"] = Session["SessionId"].ToString();
}