Hi, overall I am having a good experience with my purchase of EO Web objects. However, it has so far been my experience that in general, the Microsoft AjaxToolKit controls are not compatible. If anyone else is having issues or has solved issues with this, I would appreciate hearing from you.

at first I was having issues displaying a EO AjaxUploader within an MS modalPopupExtender panel, the uploader would not draw itself until the SECOND time I opened the panel. Ultimately I abandoned the modalPopupExtender in favor of EO's multipage views which allowed me to do basically the same thing with no conflicts.

However, I have just uncovered another incompatibility: I am attempting to use a MS AjaxToolKit DropDownExtender on a textbox which is in an EO CallBackPanel. All my controls are working perfectly and calling back correctly. The DropDownExtender also works great at first, its purpose is to appear over a textbox and display a list of phone numbers for the user to select one which ends up in the text box and the extender goes away. this works fine until I execute a callback, and then the DropDownExtender simply disappears, stops working, no longer appears on the textbox of the TargetControlID (or anywhere else.)

This is really frustrating as I would like to make all these controls work together. There seems to be a lot of issues with getting this stuff to work with the AjaxTookKit. Specifically, I want to design a sophisticated user interface using things like the DropDownExtender (which EO does not offer something similar) while utilising the excellent CallBackPanel functionality of EO.

I hope someone understands what I am talking about and may be able to shed some light on these kinds of issues. thanks in advance

Hugh J. Hitchcock

thanks for the reply... is there anyway to programatically hook up the extender? I tried rendering the control programatically, it works only the first time, but not on callbacks because apparently callbacks occur after the original rendering of the page when the controls have to be already loaded.

So... my guess is it can't be done programmatically at this time, unless you've discovered a way to do it. Otherwise, how long do you think it will be before you come up with the upgrade you mentioned?

thanks,
Hugh

This issue is addressed in build 2007.2.47.

Hi Richard,

The easiest workaround is to use UpdatePanel (if that works). On the other hand, all of our controls work with UpdatePanel very much the same way as with our own CallbackPanel.

Thanks