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In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I discussed how to create a simple News Rotator for Sitefinity. Everything is working great until you try to visit the page with Javascript disabled. Since we're using link buttons that navigate through the various news items, they require the __dopostback javascript command to initiate the postback to the server and update the news content. Obviously, disabling Javascript will break our functionality.

Incidentally, this is also another reason why I decided to build my own rotator in place of the RadRotator control. Remember that this control loads all of the ...

In my last entry (AJAX News Rotator Part I), I described how I used the NewsManager in Sitefinity to create an AJAX news rotator that dynamically fetches news content using AJAX. Using the linkbuttons in the repeater, users can jump to different items in the list. However, this isn't exactly a "rotator", because to me that implies some sort of automation, which sounds like a good job for the ASP.NET Timer control.

Since most of the logic to retrieve and update the news panel is already built, I only needed a way to automate the transition from item ...