Ajax Control Toolkit
ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Welcome to the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.


Choose from any of the samples on the left to see the live controls in action, and experiment with their different possibilities.

What is the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit?

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is an open-source project built on top of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework. It is a joint effort between Microsoft and the ASP.NET AJAX community that provides a powerful infrastructure to write reusable, customizable and extensible ASP.NET AJAX extenders and controls, as well as a rich array of controls that can be used out of the box to create an interactive Web experience.


The AJAX Control Toolkit contains more than 30 controls that enable you to easily create rich, interactive web pages.


To get started, and to install the Ajax Control Toolkit, visit the AJAX Control Toolkit Project Page on CodePlex.


To learn more, read the Getting Started Tutorial, or the other walkthroughs, tutorials and videos shown on the left.


AJAX Control Toolkit Release Notes - September 2009 Release
Version 3.0.30930


New controls

This release includes two new controls:

  • Seadragon

    Seadragon enables you to pan, zoom, and make an image full screen. You can use it, for example, to display interactive product pictures.

    Many thanks to Microsoft Live Labs http://livelabs.com for contributing this control.

  • AsyncFileUpload

    This new control enables you to perform file uploads without doing a postback. The control displays a throbber image during upload and raises client and server events when the upload is complete.

    Many thanks to Steven Lindsay for building this control.

Many thanks to by Obout http://www.obout.com for adding these controls to the AJAX Control Toolkit.


Community effort

More than twenty important bug fixes have been made in this release, across many controls, corresponding to some of the most requested fixes.


We would like to specially thank all the patch contributors from the Toolkit community whose fixes helped make this release possible. We recognize their names on the Toolkit Patch Hall of Fame.


New tutorials have been created, with improved integration in the ASP.NET AJAX Web site.


The TemplateVSI project has been removed. See the new tutorial: Creating a New Extender for information on how to create an Extender, without needing a Visual Studio Extender project template.


Note: This Septemeber 2009 release: Toolkit version 3.0.30930 is only for users who are building on top of .NET Framework 3.5 using Visual Studio 2008.
If you are using .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 then you should use the earlier Toolkit version 1.0.20229 at CodePlex.




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