Friday, March 30, 2007

Install ASP.Net AJAX extension and AJAX toolkit components

Pre-requirement: .Netframework 2.0 installed and Visual Web Developer 2005 (or full version of Visual Studio 2005). You can find them here.

1. Download ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0 and Control Toolkit from
here.
2. Run "ASPAJAXExtSetup.exe" to install AJAX Extensions 1.0.
3. Extract the none source code version of Control Toolkit to a folder.
4. Run "AjaxControlExtender.vsi" in the "AjaxControlToolkit-NoSource\AjaxControlExtender" folder to install the AJAX Control Toolkit Web Site template to Visual Web Developer 2005 (or full version of Visual Studio 2005).
5. In Visual Web Developer 2005 (or full version of Visual Studio 2005), add a new toolbox tab named "AJAX Toolkit".
6. Right-click the added "AJAX Toolkit" tab, select "Choose Items...". Browse to "AjaxControlToolkit-NoSource\SampleWebSite\Bin" folder and select "AjaxControlToolkit.dll". The AJAX Toolkit controls will be added into "AJAX Toolkit" tab.

Now, you are ready to go playing with ASP.NET AJAX development.