Atlas with 3rd party controls

Has anyone used 3rd party controls with atlas? For example r.a.d controls. I am using one such control (a tab strip). The situation is that I have a Update Panel on my page with some buttons on it. And I have this r.a.d control outside the update panel (actually doesn't matter if it is in the same update panel as the buttons or not).
What happens is that when I click on any of the buttons, this control loses the style that was applied to it. I try to reapply the style on page load but it doesn't work.
I just thought I should post this here in case someone else has seen this problem.

Thanks

There are a series of known issues rleated to Updatepanel and other controls. It boils down the the current process that UpdatePanel is using to try to provide the correct rendered parts of the page that may result from the postback (async). For example, scripts, styles, hidden form fields, as well as the rendering that occurs in the updatepanel itself.

Also, since UpdatePanel (pageRequestmanager) essentially hooks up and overrides the regular postback emchanism, then custom controls may have attempted similar things which cuases issues.

We are investigating such issues ..

Hi,

I'm also having a similar problem with the R.A.D. treeview (5.21), the style and images get "jacked up" after partial postback. Initially, I thought I could just reset the style and image path in NodeSelected. After debugging, I saw that the image path and the style was correct. So I opened the properties on a tree image that wouldn't render, the URL of the image showed as "javascript:false". After looking at all the images it appears that they each had "javascript:false" as the URL. So it looks like it's something that's happening in rendering.

Telerik will be releasing another service pack on April 27. I have solid doubts about it's reliability. As with their Q1 SP 1, I encountered countless bugs that I could not work around, so I had to drop their "callback" functionality. Additionally, Atlas provides such greater customizable functionality. This style problem is the only issue I've ran into.

Does anybody know of any work-arounds?

Thanks,
Tiffany

Atlas versus 3rd party components

Hi,

I would like to take advantage of AJAX in my ASP.NET apps and would like to ask whether i should learn Atlas or buy in some 3rd party components. The 3rd party components looks as though I can use them with little understanding of AJAX (ie no learning curve) so I guess this might be a good starting point. But what could I achieve with Atlas that the 3rd party components can't achieve?

Could someone please enlighten me?

Regards

Steve.

incorporating atlas controls into your pages is pretty straightforward. There is no real need to learn anything new to get up to speed pretty quickly. I suppose it all depends how deep you want to go. It is still early days for the whole project so there are issues/bugs. One main thing i would say that i have come across so far when trying to get to grips with this new framework is that there is not so much help to hand at the moment when you do run into difficulties. I think it will all come good in the end personally. the how to videos that you can find at atlas.asp.net get you off to a nice speedy start and you can move on from there.