February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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11.2. Installation
A number of Visual Studio 2010 project templates such as ASP.NET MVC 2 and ASP.NET web application projects include the Microsoft AJAX libraries out of the box. The libraries will, however, be maintained separately from Visual Studio/.NET 4.0, so to obtain the latest release, you will need to download it from http://ajax.codeplex.com/.
11.2.1. Adding Microsoft AJAX Libraries to Your Project
The easiest (but not necessarily best) way to include the Microsoft AJAX libraries in your project is to use the ASP.NET ScriptManager control on your page:
<asp:ScriptManager runat="Server" />
ScriptManager is a great little control that takes care of referencing Microsoft script files and helps you manage your own scripts. In previous ...