AJAX Extensions

[Nate1]

How difficult is it to install the ajax extensions for .NET? Currently have VS2005 and .NET 2.0 installed. Is there anything I should be ware of, to be carful of, don't have alot of time to fix problems if its a huge hassle to do this Ill save it till later?

[lmf232s]

Nate1,

Installing the extensions is pretty simple and straight forward. The biggest thing you will have to do is modify your web.config. Other than that you just need to copy the .dll into your bin directory or make a reference to it.

Go to this website and download the ASP.NET AJAX Downloads for ASP.NET 2.0:
http://www.asp.net/ajax/downloads/

It would not hurt to download the templates as well. This way you can create a new project and then compare your current web.config to the ajax web.config and you'll get an idea of what you need to copy. What I would do is take the ajax web.config and then copy in your stuff from your current web.config.

After you get the extensions, again copy the .dll into your bin directory or make a reference to it.

Next I assume you want to use the ajax Toolkit so download that as well. This is the very first section on the downloads page :Download the control toolkit.

Again you just need to copy the .dlls to your bin directory or make a reference to them. When you install the Toolkit it will install a sample website. Just to go the sample website and get the .dlls from the bin folder.

When you are done you should have a reference of in your bin folder the following.

System.Web.Extensions.dll
AjaxControlToolkit.dll

I believe that is it. I dont think i missed anything but maybe i did.

Let me know if you have any problems.

[Nate1]

What are the 3 > extensions?

[lmf232s]

Dont understand the question.

If your referring to the downloads on the asp.net website then:
Microsoft AJAX Library 3.5 - control toolkit for .net 3.5 VS2008

Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview - Things that are in test but not yet released. Possible will be included in future releases or something like that. It has some pretty cool stuff but its not needed.

ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates - Installs templates so when you create a new project in VS you can select the ajax template and your site will be completed set up with the correct references, dll's and the web.config stuff.

Is this what you were referring to?

[Nate1]

OK Installed the .msi and the toolkit, can see them in the toolbar, and the page loads fine with a script manager. The setup page mentions nothing about moving the dlls that I can see, do I do this because the site wasn't defined as a Ajax website? ??