Can I disable an update panel programmatically?

I have a master page which has some user controls within开发者_开发问答 an update panel.

I would like to put a property in this page to let the content pages to be able to enable/disable async postback way of working this page.

Can I achieve it programmatically?

Thanks

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Yes you can. set EnablePartialRendering="false" on the ScriptManager, it will in effect disable the AJAX behavior of the UpdatePanel.