Ajax Toolkit Download For Asp.net 4.5
Jude Hargrave
The AJAX Control Toolkit contains more than 30 free controls that you can use in your ASP.NET applications. In this tutorial, you learn how to download the AJAX Control Toolkit and add the toolkit controls to your Visual Studio/Visual Web Developer Express toolbox.
After you unblock the file, you can unzip the file: Right-click the file and select the Extract All menu option. Now, we are ready to add the toolkit to the Visual Studio/Visual Web Developer toolbox.
The easiest way to use the AJAX Control Toolkit is to add the toolkit to your Visual Studio/Visual Web Developer toolbox (see Figure 3). That way, you can simply drag a toolkit control onto a page when you want to use it.
you will also need to have a asp:ScriptManager control on every page that you want to use ajax controls on. you should be able to just drag the scriptmanager over from your toolbox one the toolkit is installed following Zack's instructions.
It's really simple, just download the latest toolkit from Codeplex and add the extracted AjaxControlToolkit.dll to your toolbox in Visual Studio by right clicking the toolbox and selecting 'choose items'. You will then have the controls in your Visual STudio toolbox and using them is just a matter of dragging and dropping them onto your form, of course don't forget to add a asp:ScriptManager to every page that uses controls from the toolkit, or optionally include it in your master page only and your content pages will inherit the script manager.
So, even if you have no intention of ever writing any controls of your own,
the toolkit is worth downloading just to get access to the over thirty controls
that you can start using immediately.
Before we get started, you will most likely want to play around with the sample website that is included with the toolkit. It offers a perfect way to get an idea of what the different controls included in the toolkit do and how they work. If you want to see the code behind the samples, you will want to set up a local copy. To do this, simply follow these simple steps.
If ASP.NET is your web development platform of choice, odds are you familiar with the open-source AJAX Control Toolkit. If you've used the toolkit in the past, you also know that for quite some time, the project was poorly supported, with an ever growing list of critical issues. Seeing the demand for such a library and considering its current state, we approached Microsoft and suggested that we help bring the Toolkit back into a dependable and usable state. Needless to say, Microsoft agreed. The good news is that since we took on this responsibility, we've managed to clean up the codebase, introduced improved Visual Studio support, and fixed nearly 900 bugs.
When using the new AJAX Control Toolkit, you can definitely get a taste of DevExpress expertise... but you will not experience our vision of today's and tomorrow's web development or our commitment to industry-best technical support. While we have restored the toolkit back to a stable state and continue to decrease the bug count, we do not intend to fully re-write it. To see our best work in action, check out the online demos for our ASP.NET, MVC or HTML5 product lines.
With the v15.1 release, we have addressed some major issues for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. Restructuring and cleaning up the toolkit was just the starting point to fixing many of the bugs. We have even more plans for the toolkit so stay tuned!
It appears that the version of the AJAX toolkit you are using is incorrect. I had this issue and after downloading and installing the correct version for my target sharepoint installation, and it worked. Hope this helps.
This is the one year anniversary of the stewardship of the AJAX Control Toolkit with DevExpress, and we thank them for their service to maintain the project. To help encourage further involvement with the project, its online source and managemenet has been moved to GitHub in the AjaxControlToolkit repository. Documentation for the toolkit has also been migrated and is hosted on GitHub.
To use both Telerik UI and AJAX Toolkit control bundles simultaneously within the same project, you have to use the ToolkitScriptManager. Upon using the toolkit manager, you can come across an error when using an UpdatePanel. This error is due to the ToolkitScriptManager having a bug with script combining. The bug is now fixed within a day after the release:
One of the biggest improvements with this toolkit release is support for a new "ToolkitScriptCombiner" control. This control allows you to replace the default control behavior, and supports the ability to dynamically merge multiple client-side Javascript scripts into a single file that is downloaded to the client at runtime. Better yet, only the Javascript needed by the specific controls on the page are included within the combined download, to make it as small as possible.
The more powerful our tools and frameworks become, the less a lot of developers feel they need to learn...because its already done for them. But ignorance is definitely not bliss. What happens when you want to troubleshoot an ajax functionality? You know nothing about it. What happens when you want to build custom members off of it? You can't if you don't know how it works.
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