I've just installed 4.5.3 (new site, new database) and have ported some code from an AJAX enabled ASP2.0 site that will fetch a user specified document and (for the moment) render it in an iframe. We have to convert the document from Word to PDF which means  the whole process from click to document display takes about 30 seconds. While waiting for all of this to happend I've used the UpdateProgress control to indicate that something is happening. This all worked first time - no problem.

Now when I port it to a DNN module the code runs and the document displays but I don't see the Progress message/animated gif. I followed the advice here nes.nesinteractivos.com/Weblog/tabid/537/EntryID/64/Default.aspx but when I enable the Partial Rendering for the module DNN takes over and displays it's own progress bar at the bottom of the page (which is not where I want to position it).

If I un-check partial rendering the DNN progress bar disappears but mine doesn't show up. If I view the source that has been rendered I see that my UpdateProgress control has aquired a style="display:none;" attribute which I didn't set in the code.

My code is shown below. The ddlDocument_OnSelectedIndexChanged event handler does all the document fetching.

<asp:UpdatePanel ID="upDocuments" runat="server">
    <ContentTemplate>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlDocument" runat="server" OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddlDocument_OnSelectedIndexChanged">
        </asp:DropDownList>
   
        <asp:UpdateProgress ID="progressWaiting" runat="server" AssociatedUpdatePanelID="upDocuments">
            <ProgressTemplate>
                Please wait converting & file ...
            </ProgressTemplate>
        </asp:UpdateProgress>
        <span>
            <iframe id="iDocument" src='<%=_documentUrl%>' width="95%" height="800"></iframe>
        </span>
    </ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>

Can anyone help out here as to what is going wrong or if i need to set some other setting than Partial Rendering ? Or are we not supposed to use the raw AJAX controls and rely on DNN ?

Thanks

Scott