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The Rating control from the AjaxControlToolkit has been of use to use as we work on some of our websites that use our Engage: Publish module.  However, we needed to make a change to the style of the container around the Rating in order to change a background image from saying "Please rate!" to "Thanks for rating."  We tried wrapping it in an UpdatePanel to get at the CssClass, but we couldn't get it to react.  Eventually, we got the following javascript to work (which needs to be declared after divRating is declared).

   



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Since the 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, we've been making use of the new functionality offered us through AJAX, both from the core extensions and through the AjaxControlToolkit.  However, we've run into a road block a number of times when we're tried to use the new UpdatePanel control to add some AJAX responsiveness into our web pages.  In short, we hadn't ever gotten it to work.

Recently, some clients were pressing us for some functionality that required UpdatePanels (or diving much deeper than we liked into JavaScript), so after another failed attempt at partial rendering, I handed the project over to a colleague to see if he might have any better luck.  Fortunately, he was able to search out the information we needed.  I had seen Jon Henning's blog post about integrating UpdatePanels into DNN, but it was rather old, so I didn't...

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Sometimes, you have elements on your webpage (such as a Solpart menu or the greyed-out background of a ModalPopup) that you want to display over an embedded Flash element. And they don't. And it's frustrating.

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With the 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX, we have started integrating controls from the control toolkit into some of our DotNetNuke modules. We've come across a couple of issues with the ModalPopup control in the (admittedly still Beta) AJAX control toolkit.

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