Is there a way to hide or remove the LoadingAjaxPanel for the grid? I have a situation where i have a grid inside a TabStrip and it's showing two LoadingAjaxPanels, one for the TabStrip and one for the grid. I need to always show the tabstrip one but i don't need to show it for the grid.
You can explicitly hide/show the loading panel based on your requirement. Check out teh following help documewnt which explains on how to go about this: Show and hide loading panel explicitly
I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding here. The second LoadingAjaxPanel only shows when a Grid is included on the page (in the page or in a tabstrip), which I seem to have no control over. I never actually added the second one in the markup. It shows up automatically on postback. This wasn't happening in Q1 2009 and only started happing in Q2 2009.
I figured it out. Since I was using a template based LoadingAjaxPanel I forgot to set the Skin attribute to an empty string. Because of this it caused the panel to use the global one I had set in the web.config. Hopefully someone else will find this useful when running into this.