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ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Control

by Matt Gibbs, Bertrand Le Roy

May 2006

Intermediate to advanced

60 pages

1h 46m

English

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Implementing AJAX-Style Asynchronous Partial-Page Updates with the New ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Control
Setting Up a Web Application and a Page to Use UpdatePanelThe UpdatePanel ControlThe ContentTemplate PropertyThe ScriptManager Control DependencyThe UpdateMode PropertyAsyncPostBackTriggerPostBackTriggerThe RenderMode PropertyThe UpdateProgress ControlDelaying the UpdateProgress control displayIntegration of the progress indication in the layout of the pageForcing a Control to Use Asynchronous PostbacksRefreshing a Panel at Regular IntervalsDetermining What Is Being Updated
Making the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control Behave in a More Fluid MannerCreating a More Interactive Master/Details PageCreating a Search Page with a Pop-up Details PreviewNavigation vs. application operationsImplementing dynamic tooltips
PageRequestManager eventsinitializeRequestbeginRequestpageLoadingpageLoadedendRequestSending structured data to the client
Writing controls for use in UpdatePanelNested UpdatePanelsUpdatePanel requests are sequentialxml-script in UpdatePanelForcing or preventing the update of a conditional panelFile upload and UpdatePanel

Creating the DataSet FileCreating the Product Category AdapterCreating the Product Table AdapterCreating the Product Details AadapterCreating the Image Queries

Overview

This newly revised Short Cut teaches you how to build richer and more interactive Ajax-style web pages using ASP.NET AJAX, Microsoft's Ajax framework for ASP.NET 2.0. The ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel control is key to building ASP.NET 2.0 applications more responsive to user input and in this tutorial, you'll learn how to use it from the Microsoft experts: Bertrand Le Roy, UpdatePanel control's architect and developer, and Matt Gibbs, ASP.NET AJAX dev team manager.

Completely revised for the Version 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX, this Short Cut teaches you what you need to know to make UpdatePanel part of your application pages. You'll also learn how to use the control to improve the performance of an ASP.NET Wizard control; create a better master/details page for the AdventureWorks database; and add a pop-up preview to a search page. Finally, you'll learn how to display UpdatePanel error messages and deal with its quirks and limitations. And all of the example code is available for free download. In short, this PDF has exactly what you need to begin adding the interactivity of AJAX to your ASP.NET 2.0 applications today.