Video: How Do I: Use the ASP.NET AJAX DropShadow Extender?

Presenter:Joe Stagner

Discover how to improve the presentation of ASP.NET sites by using the AJAX DropShadow extender control to add opaque, rounded-corner drop shadows to areas of your pages.

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This video you can add little elements here is the own application by using the drop shadow control center that ships as part of a Microsoft Ajax control toolkit source created a website and all use the HX control toolkit website template and then going to design mode here than going to just grab a panel control out of my A s get a toolbox and but so have a little content and and which just said a background color denying them to my Ajax control toolkit grabbed the drop shadow center control drop on the page

Minute 1

And look at the properties and I can set the target control to be the panel that if I look at the and look at the properties collection for the panel since I ve made the association I have inserted this inserted these property collections from the drop shadow extender and this lets us this don t let us define some of the visual properties of how this panels to know is who appear selects would seek up to be run things where they are and can know that we have the Square dropship drop shadow here through the just when virtually no work at all we can start at little elegance or application there are some are some additional

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Recently said if we want to change the look and feel a little bit so it s going perhaps once a surrounded excellency true and was run now know the drop shadow with nice rounded corners 11 note by the way you would be careful when using the drop shadow control and the rounded corner can control extenders together if you sit if you set the rounded corners to true on the drop shadow and you also try to apply a rounded corners control to this panel you ll get a JavaScript error but they re going to drop shadows or drop shadows with rounded corners and you get it with virtually no work at all the stuff simply using the center control and we get the sort of slick in a NexGen Web will can feel to the to the panels on our user interface

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