Figure 8-15. A simple Slider extender
SlideShow Extender
Once rare, you don??™t have to look far on the Internet to find a plethora of sites with slide
show elements in them. In addition to large photo-sharing sites, many smaller sites now
allow their users to create custom slide shows. With the ASP.NET AJAX SlideShow extender,
you too could easily add a simple slide show to your site. This extender uses a web service
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to get a list of images through which it will iterate. In addition to the configurable delay
time between the image transitions, you can also have custom Play, Pause, and Stop buttons
for manual control of the slide show. Table 8-16 lists the main properties of the
SlideShow extender.
Table 8-16. SlideShow Extender Properties
Property Name Description
AutoPlay Boolean value indicating whether or not the SlideShow control should
automatically start upon launch
ContextKey A user-defined context key to be used when fetching the list of images
from the web service
ImageDescriptionLabelID ID of the Label control displaying the current image??™s description.
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