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New book on UpdatePanel published by O'Reilly

O'Reilly is publishing my book on UpdatePanel. This is a short work (less than 60 pages) I did with Matt Gibbs that is scenario-focused and gives an in-depth look at the UpdatePanel control of ASP.NET "Atlas".

The book is very reasonably priced at $9.99.

Take your information from the source... Feedback welcome.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/atlasupc/

Posted: May 28 2006, 05:06 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 14 comment(s)
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Pieter Siegers said:

Hey, this sounds cool Bertrand - I'll recommend the book here at work! :-)
# May 30, 2006 4:54 PM

Dexter McCloud said:

Will this book be published in hard-cover as well?
# June 1, 2006 2:29 PM

Bertrand Le Roy said:

For the moment it's PDF only as it's a short book that will probably be updated regularly (at no extra charge).
# June 1, 2006 2:32 PM

Richard Becker said:

I purchased this work and want to thank you for making me look like a hero!  No more flashing :-)

However, I have a problem:
I have a button, list box, and two radio button lists on my form.  The radion button lists are causing a full postback, even though I've coded the triggers as follows (radio button lists are triggers #3 and #4):

<atlas:UpdatePanel runat="server" ID="chartPanel" Mode="Conditional">
 <Triggers>
   <atlas:ControlEventTrigger ControlID="btnChart" EventName="Click" />
   <atlas:ControlEventTrigger ControlID="ddlBenefits" EventName="SelectedIndexChanged" />
   <atlas:ControlEventTrigger ControlID="rblChart" EventName="SelectedIndexChanged" />
   <atlas:ControlEventTrigger ControlID="rblSort" EventName="SelectedIndexChanged" />
 </Triggers>
 <ContentTemplate>
     <asp:Image runat="server" ID="chart" CssClass="chart" />
 </ContentTemplate>
</atlas:UpdatePanel>
# June 2, 2006 11:27 AM

Bertrand Le Roy said:

Richard, I'll investigate that. Thanks for buying the book :)
# June 2, 2006 11:49 AM

Richard Becker said:

Thanks Bertrand.

One additional piece of info that might be helpful; I have a CustomValidator control coded between the two controls that work and the two that don't.  I commented the CustomValidator, but this didn't solve the problem.
# June 2, 2006 12:24 PM

Bertrand Le Roy said:

Richard, I've reproduced the problem and have opened a bug to track the issue. Thanks.
# June 2, 2006 8:06 PM

Richard Becker said:

Sorry to be a bother, but is this the url to be used for support info (i.e., info on bug fixes, updates, etc)?

Thanks again for this control.
# June 6, 2006 4:19 PM

Bertrand Le Roy said:

Richard: the best place for support currently are the ASP.NET forums:
http://forums.asp.net/1007/ShowForum.aspx
Info on updates is published on the Atlas blog:
http://atlas.asp.net/default.aspx?tabid=47
# June 6, 2006 4:26 PM

Steve said:

Quick question: Do updatepanels have a 'timeout' value?

A coworker is using the updatepanel and progress indicator for a long running process - with scriptmanager disabling partial refresh, the code finishes.  With SM enabling partial refresh - it eventually just stops running with no error, etc...

Any ideas?
# June 10, 2006 8:54 AM

steve said:

Microsoft Atlas make developer life easier in creating Ajax Website. New Microsoft Atlas Resources is created at : http://www.AtlasASP.com/
# June 11, 2006 1:30 AM

Bertrand Le Roy said:

Steve: good question. I'll open a bug to track that issue.
About your website, if you had dropped me a quick message through the contact page, maybe I would have made a post to point at it, but seeing that you posted it as an off-topic comment like the average spammer, it will have to stay in the comments ;)
# June 12, 2006 2:17 PM

Timo said:

Another happy book owner :) I don't know if this one falls in to the category "Dealing with Caveats", but I'm having issues with nested UpdatePanels. I have an "UpdatePaneled" Wizard-control and it works partially ok. However in one wizard step I'm using PopUpControlExtender so that whenever user clicks the form field, a popup calendar is displayed. So whenever I'm trying to step in to that wizardstep I get an JavaScript error: 'null' is null or not an object. This extender works ok when there is only one UpdatePanel present (with PopUpControlExtender), but not with both set (on the wizard and extender). Any ideas?
# June 29, 2006 1:54 AM

Bertrand Le Roy said:

Timo, please send me a repro page at bleroy (at microsoft).

# June 29, 2006 1:28 PM