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Control Toolkit Animation Extender

WOW! I've just started digging into the ASP.NET AJAX control toolkit animations. This thing is amazing, and at all the control toolkit conferences and talks, I've never seen this in action.

Well, that's not entirely true, I've see the UpdatePanelAnimcationExtender in action, but I had no idea that it was built on such a flexible <animations /> node.

What's your favorite resource online, that might be used to bring me up to speed on these animations? I must say the documentation is a great way to get started, but now that I've built a few animations, I'd love to learn-by-example with what other peeps have put together.

I've also scraped together a bit of knowledge from the debugger, but nothing as simple as just reading others examples.

Thanks for the feedback/comments.

Posted: Nov 19 2007, 12:46 PM by scott cate | with 2 comment(s) |
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Dan Hounshell said:

I agree. There are some awesome extenders that get very little pub!

We did the AJAX Showcase (http://asp.net/ajax/showcase/) with just the HoverMenuExtender, which we saw used in a different toolkit example, and the DropShadowExtender. No Javascript.

I think you can learn a ton by really diving into examples from the Toolkit.

# November 19, 2007 4:25 PM

Pete said:

I don't know where you can get good examples; but personally I find the documentation (at-least the documentation I could find) atrocious.

I am a tad disappointed with the limited number of events you can tie animations to (onclick, onmouseover and onmouseout - the hover ones are just specialy handled cases of the mouseover/out events).  I don't see why it isn't more generalised. (ie put anything in the xml and it tries to use that as the javascript event).

# January 8, 2008 7:16 PM
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