Creating Serverside Clock control Using Asp.net Ajax and C#

Demonstration of Timer Control and updata panel to fire timed server events

In this article we will learn how to use Timer and Updatepanel controls of Asp.net, inside Custom Control, to create other wraper controls.

Prerequisite

To use this you need to have atleast .net framework 2.0 and Asp.net AJAX Extention Controls.

Background

Using Timer we can repeat any set of commands on timely basis. Using Update panel we can process our request in asynchronous mode. So to demonstrate this I will show you a simple Server Side Clock Control.. Where I will set a set of instruction on Tick event of Timer then will wrap it in Side a Updatepanel. And at every 1 second clock will refresh it self.