Introduction

The ASP.Net AJAX Control Toolkit is a shared project of community and Microsoft. AJAX Control toolkit is built upon AJAX Extensions provided by Microsoft for developing web sites bases on client site XML Requests and response that enhances the rich experience of web-client interaction. The AJAX Control Toolkit consists of variety of web-client components that can be used easily in ASP.Net web applications just similar to other server controls. AJAX Control Toolkit extenders provide much more user experience.

Download ASP.Net AJAX Control Toolkit according to the ASP.Net framework version installed on your computer system. If your system is installed with ASP.Net frameworks 3.5 then you can download:

AjaxControlToolkit-Framework3.5.zip (full source code included)

AjaxControlToolkit-Framework3.5-NoSource.zip (only sample website and VSI installer)

If your system is installed with ASP.Net 2.0 Frameworks then you can download:

AjaxControlToolkit.zip (complete package with source code)

AjaxControlToolkit-NoSource.zip (only sample website and VSI installer)

You can download the latest release of AJAX Control Toolkit available at codeplex.com

Next we will discuss how to install AJAX Control Toolkit template and Components in Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition or Visual Studio 2005.