Question

I’m using .net 2.0. This is a project that I have taken over for another developer.

I have a aspx page that can take a long time to display under certain condition due to loading items from the database. What I want to do is to show a loading animation or something to let the user know the page is loading, so I tried to use the JQuery .ready() method, however, I can only see the results after the page is fully loaded. What I mean is that when I click on a link to my aspx page, nothing is drawn until all of the work is done. The work is done on the server side in Page_Load.

I’m looking for best practices of having the page display, even if all the user sees is an animation. Right now it appears as if something is wrong because it can take a while (over 15 seconds in some cases) before the page draws.

Answer 1

You might be able to use Asynchronous Pages to do this

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163725.aspx