Installing Ajax Control Toolkit in Visual Studio Web Developer 2010 Tutorial
In this Tutorial we will be going over how to install the Microsoft Control Kit in Visual Studio Web Developer 2010.
The Ajax Control Toolkit is a Very Rich and Powerful set of controls that enable you to build highly responsive & dynamic Ajax-Enabled ASP.NET Web Forms applications.
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First Things first, let’s download the Ajax control Kit; you can download the Latest Version from CodePlex. Click the download Tab at the codeplex site to see the latest available downloads of the Ajax control Toolkit downloads. Since we are using Visual Studio Web developer 2010 then we can either download .NET 3.5 or the Latest .NET 4.0 version of Ajax control Toolkit.
Please Download the Binary version and not the source version of the Ajax Control Toolkit. You should only downlo0ad the source version if you are interested in extending the Ajax Control Toolkit.
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Once the Ajax control Toolkit has finished downloading, you will need to extract the contents of the zip file. Extract the files to a location you will remember for later use. I drag over the folder to my desktop for ease of access.
Adding the Ajax Control Took Kit to Visual Studio Web Developer 2010
1. Open Visual Studio Web Developer 2010 and create a new ASP.NET Web Form website or Project. Open the Default.aspx file in the visual Editor
2. We’re going to create a new toolbox, by right clicking the toolbox tab and choosing Add Tab, Name that Tab Ajax control Toolkit.
3. Right click beneath our newly created Tab and select the menu option Choose Items… once you see the Browse butting, browse to where we saved our extracted files earlier, I saved them in the Desktop section of my computer. Pick the ajaxcontroltoolkit.dll and click ok button to close the choose tool box items.
4. It should take a few moments to load, once it has finished loading you will see you new Tab Named Ajax Control Tooklit
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Congrats you are now on your way to Developing Ajax enabled Web applications. Stay Tuned for More Ajax Tutorials using ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio Web Developer 2010
