Configure Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer
- Create a new web site from the ASP.NET AJAX web site template by opening the "File" menu, clicking "New", "Web Site...", and picking "ASP.NET AJAX Web Site" under "My Templates"
- Right-click on the Toolbox and select "Add Tab", and add a tab called "AJAX Control Toolkit"
- Inside that tab, right-click on the Toolbox and select "Choose Items..."
- When the "Choose Toolbox Items" dialog appears, click the "Browse..." button. Navigate to the folder where you installed the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit package. You will find a folder called "SampleWebSite", and under that another folder called "bin". Inside that folder, select "AjaxControlToolkit.dll" and click OK. Click OK again to close the Choose Items Dialog.
- You can now use the included sample controls in your web sites!
Install the "AJAX Control Extender"
- Note that the "AJAX Control Extender" is for building extenders and controls, not web sites, and therefore does not work with Visual Web Developer - it is for use with Visual C#, Visual Basic, or Visual Studio
- In the folder where you installed the AJAX Control Toolkit package, you will find a folder called "AjaxControlExtender" with a file called "AjaxControlExtender.vsi" inside it - double-click AjaxControlExtender.vsi to install it
- Choose which templates you would like to install (it is recommended to install all templates), then click "Next", then "Yes" to allow the unsigned content (note: as a public project, this content can't be signed by Microsoft), then "Finish"
- You have now installed the templates are ready to create your own Toolkit-based web site or ASP.NET AJAX Extenders!
