UpdateProgress subcontrols modification

I have the following code in place on my page. What I would like to do is to dynamically set the
lblProcessingRequest Text property during page load, because the site have some local language
customization build in.

I have tried a lot of things, but can't manage to get it to work.

<asp:UpdateProgressID="UpdateProgress"runat="server"AssociatedUpdatePanelID="UpdatePanel"DisplayAfter="100"DynamicLayout="False">

<ProgressTemplate><imgsrc="images/ProcessAnimation.gif"align="absMiddle"> <asp:labelID="lblProcessingRequest"Text="Processing request..."runat="server"Font-Bold="True"></asp:label></ProgressTemplate></asp:UpdateProgress>

The content is a template, so you can't immediately get at the controls like you normally can.

The template is instantiated during PreRender, so you should be able to hook into the Page's PreRenderComplete event, then do a FindControl on the update progress to get to the label:

private void PreRenderCompleteHandler(object sender, EventArgs args) {
Label l = (Label) UpdateProgress.FindControl("lblProcessingRequest");
l.Text = ""; // some localized text
}

Whenever you do this sort of thing, please, please be wary of ViewState. You should disable ViewState on that label, or you will be persisting viewstate data that doesn't need to be. If you are doing this for many labels on the page it could really add up to a problem. Read my (lengthy) article on ViewState, linked in my signature, if you have time.

ProtectedSub Page_PreRender(ByVal senderAsObject,ByVal eAs System.EventArgs)HandlesMe.PreRenderTryCType(UpdateProgress.FindControl("lblProcessingRequest"), Label).Text ="Some local Text"
Catch exAs Exception
EndTryEndSub

Sorry to say that this doesn't work. The control is not found. Couldn't this be because the label only is visible during the UpdateProgress, and at all
other time is hidden? I even tried hooking the control in the UpdateProgress PreRender method, but that didn't work eighter...

Ok, was I litte to hasty here.

Protected

Sub Page_PreRenderComplete(ByVal senderAsObject,ByVal eAs System.EventArgs)HandlesMe.PreRenderComplete

Hooking into the PreRenderComplete works fine!