Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Last week the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit team released Build 10618 of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.  This fixed a few issues discovered with the release earlier this month including:

  • A fix for the Tabs naming container
  • A fix for a VS design-time dependency
  • FilteredTextBox Navigation and control key issues

This build also contains additional performance optimizations for the new "script combining" feature provided by the new ToolkitScriptManager control.  This feature can help significantly improve performance for pages with multiple AJAX scripts that previously needed to be downloaded separately.  David Anson has a nice blog post that talks about these improvements here.

New ASP.NET AJAX Videos

Joe Stagner has recently posted five new (free) ASP.NET AJAX videos on www.asp.net:

You can download and watch the videos here.  These new videos are available to download in a variety of video and audio formats including: WMV, Zune, iPod, PSP, MPEG-4, and 3GP.

New ASP.NET AJAX Articles

Here are a few recent ASP.NET AJAX articles you might also want to check out:

  • ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Tips and Tricks: This is a great MSDN Magazine article by Jeff Prosise that covers: update highlighting, how to cancel updatepanel updates, optimizing with conditional updatepanels, and using page methods.
  • AJAX Control Toolkit Patch Utility: If you are not an official contributor to the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit project, but would like to submit a bug fix or small feature into the toolkit, you can read this article to learn how to create and submit a patch to the team for them to review and potentially include.

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Books

As I've mentioned in other recent posts, the first books specifically targeting the final ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 release were recently published.  Below are links to two of them that are shipping today:

Both books also include a chapter on using the controls within the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

Hope this helps,

Scott
Published Monday, June 25, 2007 11:52 PM by ScottGu
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# Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles - ScottGu's Blog

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:29 AM by Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles - ScottGu's Blog

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# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:40 AM by Vikram

The tab panel update was the one most important for me. Thanks for posting this Issue.

I have another issue:

If I cannot install Asp.net Ajax extension in my server. Can I keep the dll in the bin folder and work with it. If yes how.

Thanks

Vikram

http://www.vikramlakhotia.com

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:03 AM by Jim

Is there a process for installing an update for the Tool Kit? As there is no "install" but more a file copy and set refrences processes - should the current version be completely removed?

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:25 AM by Josh Stodola

Thanks for constantly adding videos!  I think this is a GREAT way to spread the knowledge.  Certainly it is time consuming to create videos like this, but the results are superb and it definitely makes it easier for noobs like me to learn.  This is yet another reason for me to intrigue everybody to develop with ASP.NET.  Thanks alot Microsoft!  Keep up the wonderful work, Scott!

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:29 AM by Bilal Haidar [MVP]

Hello Scott,

I have also published 5 articles on AJAX on www.aspalliance.com this month:

Create Client Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions - http://aspalliance.com/1304

Extending the ImageMap HTML Control with AJAX 1.0 Extensions - http://aspalliance.com/1291

How to Show Messenger-Like Popups Using AJAX - http://aspalliance.com/1306

Tips and Tricks: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and User Controls - http://aspalliance.com/1274

Tips and Tricks: ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions and Master Pages - http://aspalliance.com/1285

Thank you for your great support!

Regards

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:06 PM by M Reed

Is there a scheduled upgrade for the 1.0 release of ASP.Net Ajax?  I've heard rumors of such, but can't seem to find a release schedule.

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:11 PM by Kazi Manzur Rashid

The Book list should contain ASP.NET AJAX in Action of Alessandro Gallo

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:13 PM by ScottGu

Hi Vikram,

To upgrade the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, you only need to copy over the AJAX Control Toolkit assembly into the \bin directory (no other code changes required).

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 itself needs to be registered in the GAC of the server you are running.  There is a trick to avoid registering it in the GAC which is to run the application with full trust, and then place it in the \bin directory of the application.  This isn't recommended because it means the assembly can't be updated/serviced by Microsoft - but will work.

Note that most hosters run applications under medium trust - in which case this approach won't work.  But if you have full control of the server you can do it.

Hope this helps,

Scott

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:14 PM by ScottGu

Hi Rashid,

I can't wait for Alessandro's new book to come out (I'm actually writing the forward to it now).  The reason I didn't put it (and others like Wally's new book) in the list is that they aren't shipping just yet.  Once they do I'll definitley add it to the list.

Thanks,

Scott

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:17 PM by ScottGu

Hi M Reed,

.NET 3.5 (which enters B2 go-live beta in a few weeks) has built-in support for ASP.NET AJAX, and has a number of improvements and optimizations over ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 in it.  This is the next upgrade we'll be targeting.

Thanks,

Scott

# Blog de Jaime Olmo » Blog Archive » Videos Tutoriales sobre Ajax en ASP

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:03 PM by Blog de Jaime Olmo » Blog Archive » Videos Tutoriales sobre Ajax en ASP

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# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:41 PM by Huobazi

Good Job!

To 'script combining' I'd like the 'CombineScriptsHandlerUrl' which setting to my custom Httphander

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:01 AM by Vikram

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the information. But my problem is that neither my hoster is deploying the Asp.net ajax extension nor my application is in full trust. what can I do about it now?

http://www.vikramlakhotia.com

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:29 AM by Jonathan Parker

Great news.

Do you think that this control would be good for the toolkit?

jonathanparker.com.au/.../default.aspx

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:47 AM by Deepak Chawla

In the last blog about the Ajax toolkit release by Scott.

I did raise a concern about bugs which happen in successive issues and asked about the justification of using such toolkit.

Following is a quote from Shawn Burke's blog

"We releases a Toolkit Refresh (10618) on Monday to address some issues we missed with the 10606 build, as well a nasty regression that slipped through on the TabPanel.  We're working on beefing up our test coverage to add these cases so they don't get broken again."

I was talked down by the reply that hundred of thousands are using this toolkit.

My question still remains.<b> If I would have deployed the earlier release what would happen to my small business because my client would want it fixed right away and not wait for Toolkit owner's to fix it?</b>

Say in this case that someone's tab panel broke down what would the website people do either they rollback the whole release (Not a good thing) or wait for the fix (Not a good thing either) and have a buggy website/system and deal with client issue?

Finally, constructive criticism is not a bad thing.

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:44 PM by Simon Freejohn

Hi Guys,

I designed a database a couple of years ago that works very well for what I needed it to do.

It is just a small MS Access database fronted by  ASP VBSCRIPT pages.

Here is the problem I am having...

On Windows XP all I need do is set up the ODBC connection and then configure IIS to run the site and thats it...all is well.

On Windows Vista however.... all is not well!

I have created the ODBC Connection to the access database, but as soon as i try to open my default page in the explorer I am getting an error saying that the file type is not recognised.

I am so unfamiliar with IIS7 and I can not seem to find an article that defines my problem exactly. I guess that I need to enable *.ASP pages somewhere within IIS7.....

Any ideas would be grately appreciated.

Thanks Guys

Simon

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:49 AM by ScottGu

Hi Jonathan,

That looks like a cool control!

Thanks,

Scott

# re: Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release and New ASP.NET AJAX Videos/Articles

Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:54 AM by ScottGu

Hi Deepak,

The source code for the control toolkit is available for download, along with a project solution that makes it trivial to build your own local copy within visual studio.

When you want a change/bug-fix/feature made to the control toolkit, you can do one of a number of things:

1) make it yourself using the source.  this enables immediate fixes/changes.

2) post a bug report and ask the control toolkit team to fix it.  they typically post fixes to the source depot several times a week, which means you can pick them up immediately.

3) post a bug report and wait till the next released build ships.  These ship every few weeks and provide binary role-ups of all improvements and fixes.  the release above is an example of one, and includes fixes for the the last two weeks.

Hope this helps,

Scott

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# Links of the Week (Month) June 30 2007

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