Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

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CHAPTER 12 ■ AJAX EXTENSIONS FOR ASP.NET
The installation is pretty straightforward. Once it has installed successfully, you’ll see
a completion screen (see Figure 12-4).
Figure 12-4. Completing the installation
Once this is done, you can launch Visual Studio 2005 and create a new project. In the
New Project dialog box, you’ll see a new template for ASP.NET AJAX-Enabled Web Application
(see Figure 12-5).
■Note If you are using Visual Studio 2008, the ASP.NET AJAX extensions are already available, and you do
not need to download them. However, the Control Toolkit is still a separate download.
Once you’ve done this, Visual Studio will create a new ASP.NET Web Application project
that is configured to use the ASP.NET extensions. You’ll notice a couple of new things.
First are the AJAX Extensions controls in the Toolbox (see Figure 12-6). These allow you to
provide Ajax functionality in an ASP.NET development environment.