Hi,
Does anyone know how to make the drop down panel similar to the
'Action' button in MSCRM? It is not a standard web control. Although
there are several samples we can download from the internet for free,
they all have a problem that is when the drop down panel is expanded,
all the contents below the drop down panel will move downwards. But in
MSCRM, when the drop down panel is expanded, it just overlaps and
covers the contents below. I am a newbie in asp.net and hope some
experts can help me. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

I'm guessing but that control is probably a microsoft specific control and
is therefore not yet exposed to public use. In the later releases we guess
we will see more controls available for us to use in creating addons to crm


"David" <huayuli@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Study the javascript/dhtml they use. All the code is there. They've done
some pretty impressive UI stuff with the application. Even our javascript
guru was impressed.

"David" <huayuli@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Thanks, dh. I guess I need to turn on the browser menu bar for the
MSCRM to view the source, right?

actually i would recommend just digging through the crm web source as all
the files are there

or open web.config and set appmode=Off to get all the ie menus back etc

of course do an iisreset after the change
"David" <huayuli@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Thanks but I found that microsoft still uses custom control for
implementing the drop down panel because the source code does not have
the details. The control they are using is:

<%@ Register TagPrefix="mnu"
Namespace="Microsoft.CRM.Application.Menus"
Assembly="Microsoft.CRM.AppComponents" %>
....

<tr height="20">
<td width="100%"><mnu:AppGridMenuBar id="crmMenuBar" runat="server"/>
</td></tr>
.....

Am I looking at the wrong place? Thanks for any suggestions!