<< Back to the snippet list
Using the UpdateProgress control to provide user feedback
With the advent and somewhat mainstream adoption of AJAX the importance of visual cues became essential. One of the things woven into the ASP.NET AJAX server controls is the UpdateProgress control that makes it very easy to provide visual cues when asynchronous operations are occurring. The following shows a small loading icon when the button within the UpdatePanel is clicked (this puts the thread to sleep for a while).
ASP.NET AJAX
UpdatePanel
UpdateProgress