AJAX Control Toolkit now support theming!
This was amazing that all the AJAX Toolkit Controls was not
designed to support Theme and Skins !! Most of them are
extenders and should respect the idea of decoupling design
from behaviours like regular ASP.NET 2.0 controls.
I
voted for the issue on early february
http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?ProjectName=AtlasControlToolkit&WorkItemId=6838
and I'm glad to know that this has been processed!
David
Anson did the work and checked in support for real ASP.NET
Theme/Skin since build 19000 that shipped on march 01, 2007.
Note that this release of the toolkit also brings good things such as localization support and two new controls (ListSearch and SlideShow), along with a number of fixes.
Why am I blogging this ?
The point
here is when you find a bug or you would like to add a
feature, juste ask for it!
For sure you can modify the
source code, BUT I think it is far better to ask for the
feature to the dev team, so it will be added to the library
and you won't loose your changes on the next update.
How to ask for a feature or report a bug ?
Feel free to add an item in the official issue
tracker :
http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/AdvancedList.aspx
This can be voted by everyone, checked and
prioritized by the team and hopefully processed on a futur
version.
In the same idea
As you know AJAX
Control Toolkit is a free library of controls that are built
by both Microsoft and non-Microsoft developers. So you can
develop your own control and bring your addition to the
library (after validation by Microsoft team)!
Note: In case you wonder I'm not (but maybe
one day) part of the AJAX Control Toolkit team.
If you
need more informations please go to the official project
website:
http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/