Installing the AJAX Control Toolkit in Visual Studio 2008

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Written by mbrock

Thursday, 15 May 2008 21:19

ASP.NET AJAX is a free framework for quickly creating efficient and interactive Web applications that work across all popular browsers. ASP.NET AJAX is built-into ASP.NET 3.5. It is also available as a separate download for ASP.NET 2.0. Check out the ASP.NET site for more info on ASP.NET and AJAX. If you're new to ASP.NET and Visual Studio, it may be a little confusing to get the AJAX Control Toolkit installed and working. So here is how to add the AJAX Control Toolkit to Visual Studio 2008.

	Download the newest AJAX Control Toolkit for ASP.NET 3.5 from www.codeplex.com. Accept the terms and download
	Extract the files from the .zip file into C:\Program Files\AJAX Control Toolkit (or to the directory of your choice)
	Copy all of the binaries from the C:\Program Files\AJAX Control Toolkit\SampleWebSite\bin directory into the C:\Program Files\AJAX Control Toolkit\AJAX ControlToolkit\Binaries directory
	Create or open a web site in Visual Studio 2008 - the web site will just be used to help install the toolkit. You should see the Ajax Extensions panel already there... There is no panel for the AJAX Control Toolkit.
	In Visual Studio 2008 right click on the Toolbox then "Add Tab".
	Name the new tab. I chose "AJAX Toolkit".
	Right click in the new tab area and click on "Choose Items..."
	Browse to the C:\Program Files\AJAX Control Toolkit\AJAX ControlToolkit\Binaries directory and select AJAXControlToolkit.dll You should now see several AJAX Control Toolkit items in the Choose Toolbox Items window. Click OK and they will appear in your VS 2008 Toolbox. NOTE: On one machine I was installing the AJAX control toolkit on, this step failed with an error about System.Web.Extensions... the AJAX DLL wanted another version of System.Web.Extensions in the GAC I downloaded and installed the ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 setup msi from Microsoft (ASPAJAXExtSetup.msi) After the install the correct version of System.Web.Extensions appeared in the GAC (%System Root%/Assemblies)
	The AJAX Control Toolkit tab should now have several items listed under it.

Note that the AJAX Toolkit only works on items in an AJAX Extension UpdatePanel. And in order to use the UpdatePanel, a ScriptManager must appear before the UpdatePanel definition.

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Comments (33)

dear sir/madam,

how to useing/working ajax control in asp.net2008.
please sent a normal page with coding in my mail id.

hello sir,
My name is Neha Dambhare sunny and i am .NET student.Right now i am working on a web application,and i felt that i should use Ajax control tool kit.I have download the kit from http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com link,I installed this kit according to your guide mentioned in this site.When i am using this kit in my application some of the controls are not coming on the surface of aspx page in designer view.If switch to source view i am able to take that controls on aspx surface.Problems come when i run the application i get error like "targetcontrolID is not valid".i have also add scriptmanager in prior to adding all ajax controls.sir Please help me out i need to use ajaxcontrol tool it in my application..

Thanks a lot :)

Thank you, thank you! With a completely clean install of 2008 on a newly rebuilt machine I had much trouble with the Web.Extensions error. I tried so many things with no luck, your clear and well written article and running the Ajax 1.0 setup did the trick!

thanks for ajax: really its too much help for everyone person:

hi, This is a very good tutorial for the beginner.

hi...
Can u plz tell me, is there different setup of ajax control toolkit for .net version .net 3.5 and .net 2.0???

You need to download the assembly from here:

http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/releases/view/43475

For VS2008, we need AjaxControlToolkit.Binary.NET35.zip.

Learn how to install the Ajax Control Toolkit at http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act.ashx.

i followed the similar steps as given above. but similar to all above problems , i am also gettin the same error "ajax toolkit is not a .net module. pls help me. i m tryin from a month to include this toolkit in vs 2008. i hv first extracted the toolkit file on my desktop then i hv copied all the control files from ajaxcontrolsamplesite into ajaxcontroltoolkit.binary.net4 folder.then i right clicked on the toolbox -> choose item-> browse-> selected the ajaxcontroltoolkit.dll from the ajaxcontroltoolkit.binay.NET4 folder bt always shows the above problem . plssssssss helpppppp. thnx in advance......

plssssss.

Sir/Madam,
I am getting an error while adding AjaxControltoolkit to my tab. Error: AjaxControlToolkit.dll is not a microsoft .net module.
Pls help

Hai,
This is article very help full to add tool kit.
But we want some more examples to implement it..

when i am trying to add controls it throws an error that its not a Microsoft module . what should i do, kindly send me the appropriate response at my e-mail id .. thanks in Advance.

HELLO SIR/MADAM ,
the article is simple to understand. but when i am trying to add controls it throws an error that its not a Microsoft module . what should i do, kindly send me the appropriate response at my e-mail id .. thanks in Advance.

Put AJAXControlToolkit.dll in project bin folder, go to Project, Add reference, browse to bin folder, select dll file, click ok. If it says it is not compatible with your project you will need to upgrade your project to .Net 3.5. Make backup. Right click Project name, properties, compile, advanced compile options, Target Framework, .NET Framework 3.5, OK.

I have done everything by the book to the dot, AJAX controls are simply not working. I get no errors, no messages nothing, but all areas where I expect the AJAX controls to work, they are NOT. I even tried the Calender control extender, it's not showing at alll....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Microsssssssssssoft XXXXXXX. Can anyone help, I have so far spent 1 complete weeke, even uninstalling VS 2008 and re-installing, but nothing is changing!!

Thanks a lot for your help!
It solved my problem.
+5 for everything you wrote here!
Thanks again..and have a nice time!
Be happy!

Hello Dear!

Please see ur version type and download the same after that install it. http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/releases/view/63654 here avail different versions.

Thanks

Regards
Kaliyarajalu

hello sir, i have download this toolkit and while i am adding it to my toolkit , a warrning error is coming , this is not a microsoft product.
help me.
sorry for "Poor English".

Thank you for explaining it.

hello sir,
Hiii sir,My Name is Tank Hitesh and i have installed ajax toolkit as per your described steps, and all the are displayed in toolbox of visual studio 2008. but they don't work, on trying to add them it seems no effect on screen in other words i am unable to add them in web form. what is the reason ?
can you guide me ? here i should mention that my visual studio version is visual studio 2008,please sir give queck response because i have alread started my project so give ans........

hello sir,
i have installed ajax toolkit as per your described steps, and all the are displayed in toolbox of visual studio 2008. but they don't work, on trying to add them it seems no effect on screen in other words i am unable to add them in web form. what is the reason ?
can you guide me ? here i should mention that my visual studio version is visual studio 2008

hello sir,
My name is sanindra kumar sunny and i am .NET Developer for past 3 months.Right know i am working on a web application,and i felt that i should use Ajax control tool kit.I have download the kit from http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com link,I installed this kit according to your guide mentioned in this site.When i am using this kit in my application some of the controls are not coming on the surface of aspx page in designer view.If switch to source view i am able to take that controls on aspx surface.Problems come when i run the application i get error like "targetcontrolID is not valid".i have also add scriptmanager in prior to adding all ajax controls.sir Please help me out i need to use ajaxcontrol tool it in my application..

really thanks
can u send me a website name where i can learn how to work on ajax.

article is excellent

i get a proper way to add ajax control toolkit to the visual studio 2008,i was trying to solve it since last two days of time but suddenly i found this article n i got the way.

thnx a lot

thanks : great help to add ajax controls

hi this natraj ankhe,

this article is excellent...

very nice. Thank you

Much easier than all the instrucitons you can find elsewhere, I appreciate your post. I did find the following that may make it a little easier...
1. Instaead of adding a reference and waiting for the dialog to come up, drag and drop the dll into your toolbox into your new tab, the controls will be added more quickly and easily.
2. If you drag it straight out of the BIN directory in the sample site, when you run your app, you'll get all the other language dll's to go with it. If you don't want them, copy the english files out to a new directory and drag and drop from there instead.

Thanks again.

Your Ajax Control Tool kit installation instructions surpass that of Microsofts instructions.

Thank You

I have the items added in the .NET tab when I select add items. They have the checkbox added to them. When I click ok, the controls are not added to the AJAX Control Toolkit.

I also do not have a AJAX Extensions tab. I followed everythign step-by step and have had no luck.

Any suggestions?

**********
mbrock>> The AJAX Extensions tab should be installed as a part of the Visual Studio 2008 installation.

It's really a helpful article. Thanks for help.

This is a very Good Article.. It helped me alot, i mas slight confused, but it really helped me. I added Ajax Tool Kit Control.

Thanks

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