Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is not included with ASP.NET 4 Framework. The Toolkit is continuously updated; a new release of the Toolkit is available every couple months. The Toolkit is maintained as a project at Microsoft CodePlex. You can download the latest release of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit at http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/.

The “download” link will give you the 3.5 version of the toolkit, which won’t work with our ASP.NET 4 websites. To get the toolkit that’s compatible with .NET 4, click the “other downloads” link.

When you download the Toolkit, you have the choice of either (1) downloading the controls and the source code or (2) downloading the controls only. You need to unzip ...

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