--- title: "ASP.Net AJAX Server Control: UpdateProgress, UpdatePanel" description: "A control that allows you to display a visual element to the end user to show that a partial page post back is occurring to the part of the page makin" author: "Amit Singh" published: 2010-10-09 updated: 2019-09-07 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/151/asp-dot-net-ajax-server-control-updateprogress-updatepanel category: "ajax" tags: ["ajax"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # ASP.Net AJAX Server Control: UpdateProgress, UpdatePanel UpdateProgress: A control that allows you to display a visual element to the end user to show that a partial page post back is occurring to the part of the page making the update. This is an ideal control to use when you have long running AJAX update.\ UpdatePanel: A Container Control that allows you to define specific areas of the page that are enabled with script manager. It contains two sections: One is **** and another is **** section How we implement the Update Progress server control ##### Example: **Step1:** we use the following control on aspx page ``` Using Update Panel
<%--Using script Manager Control--%> <%--Using UpdateProgress Control--%> Update is showing here....... <%--Using UpdatePanel Here--%> <%--Adding one button outside the update panel--%>

<%--Adding one button outside the update panel--%>
``` **Step2:** We write the following code on button click event. ``` protected void btnShowDate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {   System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.Parse("00:00:10"));   lblShowDate.Text = "Today Date is: " + DateTime.Now.ToString();} ``` **Step3:** Run the project ![ASP.Net AJAX Server Control: UpdateProgress, UpdatePanel](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/b1a42dcf-2f81-4141-b9d0-8180565bfefd/images/cc124b21-ae07-4450-b3e0-c21e4644cee0.png) After 10 second, the output is: ![ASP.Net AJAX Server Control: UpdateProgress, UpdatePanel](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/b1a42dcf-2f81-4141-b9d0-8180565bfefd/images/87c21727-c7f3-4ed9-be18-7b7bab853b2e.png) --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/151/asp-dot-net-ajax-server-control-updateprogress-updatepanel Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.