Can someone help me out. I really dont know what am doing wrong. I have a webpart that i have created. I added the webpartmanager and the webpartzone. I have utilised the minimizeVerb and restoreverb with the imageurl. when i go to view designer, i could see both the collapse and expand button but when i run it, I cant see them. what am i doing wrong. Please help.

what browser do you use?

and if you can post the code it would be appreciated. 

Try to add this line in page load:

WebPartManager1.DisplayMode = WebPartManager.DesignDisplayMode;

 The browser that I am using is IE7

I will try adding that to the page load and see what happens. Thanks 

Hi, I have done what u said by adding the code snippet at the page load and when i run it i get this error; the specified dispay mode is currently disabled on this page.make sure personalisation is enabled for the current user.

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Hi, I have done what u said by adding the code snippet at the page load and when i run it i get this error; the specified dispay mode is currently disabled on this page.make sure personalisation is enabled for the current user.

Be sure to set  Authentication mode in your web config like:

<authentication mode="Windows" />
<authorization>
 <allow users="*" />
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>

And set authorization scope for all users in your web.config file like:

    <webParts>
      <personalization defaultProvider="SqlPersonalizationProvider">
        <providers>
          <add name="SqlPersonalizationProvider" type="System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.SqlPersonalizationProvider" connectionStringName="AspNetDBConnectionString" applicationName="MSWebParts"/>
        </providers>
        <authorization>
          <allow users="*" verbs="enterSharedScope"/>
          <allow users="*" verbs="modifyState"/>
        </authorization>
      </personalization>
    </webParts>

Please take a look at this post:Implementing ASP.NET WebParts with Different Authentication modes

Thanks Vinz, it worked.