AJAX Control Toolkit — July 2013 Release

This release of the Ajax Control Toolkit improves the performance of the Ajax Control Toolkit and makes it easier to create custom Ajax Control Toolkit controls.

• Control Bundles - Use Control Bundles to specify the subset of the Ajax Control Toolkit controls that you want to use in your app. Control Bundles can substantially improve the performance of your app by enabling you to download only the scripts that you need.

• CombineScripts Handler - Use the new AjaxControlToolkit.CombineScripts handler to cache Ajax Control Toolkit scripts for an entire app. To take advantage of the CombineScripts handler, you need to register the handler in your web.config file (see the sample website).

Changes with this Release

• Visual Studio 2012 Solution - Starting with this release, you must use Visual Studio 2012 when working with the Ajax Control Toolkit source code. We no longer maintain separate Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, and Visual Studio 2012 solution and project files.

• Sanitizer Providers - The Sanitizer Providers no longer ship in a separate assembly. The code has been merged into the AjaxControlToolkit.dll assembly. You will need to update your web.config file (see the sample website).

What's in the Download

This AJAX Control Toolkit download contains the AjaxControlToolkit.dll assembly, localized resource files, and the Ajax Control Toolkit Sample Site. Follow the instructions below to add the AJAX Control Toolkit to the Visual Studio Toolbox.

http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act.ashx

You can download the source code for the Ajax Control Toolkit from CodePlex:

http://AjaxControlToolkit.CodePlex.com

Note: When opening the Ajax Control Toolkit solution in Visual Studio 2008, you will receive a security warning because the Ajax Control Toolkit project files have been modified to use the Microsoft Ajax Minifier. Select the option to Load the Project Normally.

Reporting Issues

Please report any issues that you discover with the Ajax Control Toolkit at the Ajax Control Toolkit issue tracker:

http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basic

Learn More

The ASP.NET Ajax website contains tutorials, videos, and sample code to help you learn how to use the AJAX Control Toolkit:

http://www.ASP.net/ajax