ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

As I mentioned last week when ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 shipped, we are publishing the full source code to the ASP.NET AJAX product.  This includes the source to the server-side ASP.NET integration (including the UpdatePanel, UpdateProgress, and ScriptManager controls, as well as the source to the Network Serialization code).

The client-side ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript library (which we also call the "Microsoft AJAX Library") is being released under the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL).  This grants developers the right to freely customize/modify the library, as well as to redistribute the derivative versions of the JavaScript library for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. 

The code for the server-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 implementation was released this morning.  You can download it here.  It is being released under the Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL).  Included with the source code are debugger symbols for the shipped binary, which will allow you to step from your own code into the ASP. NET AJAX library while debugging, with line number and symbol data preserved.  Note that the setup installs the source code locally on your machine within the "\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025\Source" directory.

You can also obviously download (and modify) the source code for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.  It is built as a collaborative CodePlex Project that both Microsoft and non-Microsoft developers contribute code and work on together.

Thanks,

Scott 

P.S. I'm hoping on a plane to Europe in an hour for my presentations in Belgium and the UK, and will be out the rest of this week (it only took me 3 frantic hours to find my passport last night -- sheesh).  As a result there will be some delays with blog comments (and my responses to them) while I'm away. 

 
Published Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:41 AM by ScottGu
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# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:50 PM by Plip

Dang, and I was getting so used to reflector! :-)

Cheers Scott - this is great news!

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:41 PM by Chris Hammond

Awesome, thanks Scott, and everyone else on the team!

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:30 PM by Cyril DURAND

Do you want to kill Reflector ?

Thanks ;-)

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:38 PM by Morten

Cool! But where are all the code summaries? :-)

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:44 PM by Ira

Excellent! Not only do developers like myself get the benefits of simple to implement AJAX controls, but now we get the source?! Thanks so much to you and your team.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:09 PM by vikram

wow, Thats some great news, The full source code for the Ajax Library

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:54 AM by Wim

Is there a solution file available to open the project in Visual Studio 2005 ?

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:29 AM by DuncanS

Scott - is the JavaScript "cruncher" that you use to generate the compressed MicrosoftAjax*.js files available, or going to be made available?

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:49 AM by Niranjan

Thanks a lot scott. Iam trying to build a application that is similar to Yahoo Mail (New Version) ..Can you just throw me some lights whether it is possible through AJAX? Sorry if i hav made my post in the wrong place.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 5:54 AM by Iain Norman

> P.S. I'm hoping on a plane to Europe

Buying a ticket is usually more effective than just hoping :D

Many thanks for the source code!

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:22 AM by West

And the code fun just keeps on coming!

Keep up the great work :-)

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:32 AM by Joe

> ...This grants developers the right to freely customize/modify the library...

As I understand it, the js is loaded from resources in the System.Web.Extensions assembly, which the MS-RL does not allow us to modify.

So how can we customize it?  Is there some way to redirect to a custom version of the script library?

This would be very useful, for example to implement a quick fix for bugs such as http://forums.asp.net/thread/1547286.aspx

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:54 AM by Christopher Gooley

First off - thanks to you all for releasing the source, it made my life a bit easier (but not as easy as if it had included the Resources and a .csproj file...)

In response to Wim -

I needed to make some mods to the server-side source to fix an incompatibility with placing an AJAX 1.0 site in frames, so I was surprised to see that the source release was just a bunch of .cs files and nowhere near ready to compile.

Since it was released under the Reference License, I can't distribute my solution but I _did_ writeup a howto for getting the source release ready to compile in VS2005.

http://iterat.ive.ly/index.php/2007/01/31/build-your-own-modded-systemwebextensionsdll/

Hopefully it is helpful to anyone who needs to roll their own mods into the source (or modify the core embedded .js files, like I did)

-christopher

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:47 AM by Boris Yeltsin

I was grumbling that I have to get up at 6am so I can see you on Saturday. Then I remembered your talk starts at 9am. Which means you're actually starting it at 1am Seattle time.

I'm not complaining anymore ;)

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:43 AM by Joao Cardoso [MVP]

Great stuiff Scott! Thanks a million.

Quick question... Any reason why the code has no comments?

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:43 AM by Joe

> Is there some way to redirect to a custom version of the script library?

Found the answer to this: point ScriptManager.ScriptPath at the customised library.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:13 PM by Koen Verheyen

I find the code in general very ugly. Large methods and large classes everywhere. Was there any refactoring at all?

Anyway, I enjoyed the sessions in Belgium very much. Especially the Orcas one. Can't wait to have it. Hope to see more of your sessions...

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:13 PM by Brian T.

I have updated to this release but now my entire page refreshes upon a post-back. What happened? Everything worked before. Where can I go for help?

Thank you.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:20 PM by Eric Newton

Hey Scott, is there any chance of the core ASP.NET controls' source code being released?

Now that we're dealing with deeper object hierarchies, GridView BoundFields do not work very well.

It would be nice if you guys could enable that scenario.  ie, DataField="Vendor.Name" (which currently doesn't work)

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:32 PM by Eric Newton

BTW, I'm referring to this feedback item:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=104972

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:35 PM by sam

Great can we get the same thing for the framework now?

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:01 PM by Tim K

Hey Scott,  I'm trying to dig into using the validation controls and the new AJAX extensions in harmony.

I installed the validation mapping classes and the web.config entries to get the regular asp.net validators to work.  Now my only issue appears to be that the validation summary wants to scroll the page up...

So if I have a client side validation error it scrolls the page, regardless of the position of the validation summary control itself.  I realize this is how the validation summary has always worked, but it seems to be more annoying when doing the partial page refreshes.

Can you think of a way to use the validation summary and not have the scrolling?  Short of a custom validation summary control, which I could try as a last resort...

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Friday, February 02, 2007 3:53 AM by Stephen Schutt

> (it only took me 3 frantic hours to find my passport last night -- sheesh).

I've had this experience before an Int'l flight as well.  Pretty nerve wracking, huh.  Interesting to hear that brilliant people have the same problems that I do.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Sunday, February 04, 2007 6:31 PM by ScottGu

Hi Tim,

Can you send me an email with more details on this scrolling issue?  I can then have someone on the AJAX team take a look and get back to you on it.

Thanks,

Scott

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Sunday, February 04, 2007 6:34 PM by ScottGu

Hi Joao,

The source code right now has the comments automatically removed (since they include people's email names).  We are looking at ways in the future that we can include the comment as well.

Note that the line-space gaps in the code are where comments used to be.  They gaps are there to ensure that the line numbers still match up to the symbol data that the debugger uses (otherwise you wouldn't be able to step through the code).

Thanks,

Scott

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Sunday, February 04, 2007 6:41 PM by Mark Wisecarver

Hey Scott...Just a suggestion about the comments; It would be great to have them left in like Valve did with their C++ SDK code comments, which turned out to be mostly fun for the SDK developers. The comments could be both helpful and entertaining bro. Salute (With honors)

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Sunday, February 04, 2007 7:08 PM by ScottGu

Hi Brian,

Can you check out this blog post and see if that fixes the problem: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/12/10/gotcha-don-t-use-xhtmlconformance-mode-legacy-with-asp-net-ajax.aspx

Thanks,

Scott

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Sunday, February 04, 2007 7:09 PM by ScottGu

Hi Sam/Eric,

I'm hoping/working to try and get the full ASP.NET framework source code published.  It is a fairly lengthy process to get it approved, but we are working on trying to get it done.

Thanks,

Scott

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Sunday, February 04, 2007 7:12 PM by ScottGu

Hi Joe,

By default the client-side javascript file for ASP.NET AJAX is served out of the server-side assembly (it is embedded as a resource).

However, you can alternatively configure it to point to an alternative modified version you create yourself.  This can be done by changing a setting within your web.config file.

Hope this helps,

Scott

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:47 PM by Elijah Manor

Thats great! I look forward to checking out the source code. Thanks for making this available.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Monday, February 05, 2007 2:54 PM by Mark Wisecarver

Wow, just got the Ajax Docs (Hot off the press).

Big thanks to the team, this bundle is simply awesome, chock full of goodies.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:56 PM by Michael Sync

Thanks.

>>the full source code to the ASP.NET AJAX product

it would be great if it can be build without doing anything like generating System.Web.Resources.

# re: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Friday, February 09, 2007 11:59 PM by Cesar Vega

3 hours to find the passport !? LOL

That never happens to me, I just ask to my wife, you know, wives know e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g!