Emad Ibrahim

Here is an interesting article on how to display Gmail-like progress indicator: Matt Berseth: ASP.NET AJAX: Rendering a Gmail-like ‘Loading’ Indicator over a Specific ASP.NET Control

But I have a much easier method to do that, which I use in www.yongazonga.com:

First, add your UpdateProgress control like this:

<asp:UpdateProgress ID="UpdateProgress2" runat="server"
    AssociatedUpdatePanelID="pnlNewUser"
   DisplayAfter="0" DynamicLayout="True">
      <ProgressTemplate>
         <div class='progresspanel'>
                Loading...
         </div>
      </ProgressTemplate>
</asp:UpdateProgress>

And then apply this style to the div:

.progresspanel
{
    background-color: RED;
    color: White;
    top: 1px;
    color: white;
    position: absolute;
    right: 16px;
    z-index: 999;
}

Do you have a better/easier way of doing this?