Programatically adding UpdatePanel?

I want to programatically add an updatepanel control on a button click.

I tried adding a reference to Microsoft.Web.Atlas.dll and then creatinga System.Web.UI.UpdatePanel control but the app does not compile - withnamespace does not exist error.

Does anyone know what I should be doing or if this is possible at all?

Thanks !

you would need to import the following

Imports Microsoft.Web.UI

Then, you can create an instance of the UpdatePanel like this:

Dim UP As New UpdatePanel

Hope this works for you.

Thanks it works ... I was using System.Web.UI which was the problem
Now that I have this I'm trying to add content to the updatepanel.

I can set most of the properties, add triggers without problems.

However when I try to execute it - it gives an error saying "A ContentTemplate must be specified".

Whats the easist way to do this. I haven't found any documentation on programatically adding a contenttemplate.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm looking for the same thing myself and haven't found any answers.
You'll need to create a class that implements ITemplate, create an instance of that and set the content template property to that instance.

try this

protected

overridevoid OnInit(EventArgs e)

{

updatePanel.ContentTemplate =

newCompiledTemplateBuilder

(

newBuildTemplateMethod(CreateAtlasUpdateContent));

}

public

void CreateAtlasUpdateContent(Control container)

{

container.Controls.Add(yourcontrol);

}

dont know if this will come in handy with anyone but what i did to get around the template error was

have a class with the following:

PublicClass AjaxControl :Inherits Microsoft.Web.UI.UpdatePanelProtectedOverridesSub OnInit(ByVal eAs System.EventArgs)Me.ContentTemplate =New TemplateBuilderMyBase.OnInit(e)EndSubEndClass

Then whenever i needed to create a control that was surrounded by the update panel i would inherit this class and could just then put me.controls.add() as usual.

probs useless to you all, but works for me :)

Even if you got past the coding issues, you still can't add an UpdatePanel once InitComplete has fired (which is pretty early in the lifecycle) so you're not going to be able to accomplish what you set out to do, which I think was to add an UpdatePanel dynamically.

HTH

Has anyone been able to dynamically add an UpdatePanel to a page?

I got so far - and then I got the error:

"The UpdatePanel 'panel1'was not present when the page's InitComplete event was raised."

Is there any way around this?

Wade.