Best "Loading" feedback for ASP.Net?

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Published on 2010-04-30T10:51:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 10:57 UTC
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So, we have an ASP.Net application - fairly standard - and in there are lots of updatepanels, and postbacks.

On some pages we have

<ajax:UpdatePanelAnimationExtender ID="ae" runat="server" TargetControlID="updatePanel" BehaviorID="UpdateAnimation">
    <Animations>
        <OnUpdating>
            <FadeOut Duration="0.1" minimumOpacity=".3"  />
        </OnUpdating>
        <OnUpdated>
            <FadeIn minimumOpacity=".5" Duration="0" />
        </OnUpdated>
    </Animations>
</ajax:UpdatePanelAnimationExtender>

Which basically whites out the page when a postback is going on (but this clashes with modal dialog grey backgrounds). In some cases we have a progressupdate control which just has a spinny icon in the middle of the page.

But none of them seem particularly nice and all a bit clunky. They also require a lot of code in various places around the app.

What methods do other people use and find effective?

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