Installing AJAX Control Toolkit 4 in Visual Studio 2010

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• Nice post; I found it as useful. Thanks.
  

• You are Welcome dear Phil.
  
  
  
  

• Thanks for clear explanations. I enjoyed it
  

• I have created a tab and browse to and select the dll. When I hit OK - nothing happens. All that remains is an empty tab in the toolbox.
  
  
  
  

• Am not sure why that happened with you! check that the correct DLL file which you choose, otherwise to make sure that there is no problems with your Visual Stodio add another Custom Controls DLL,just for testing purposes.
  
  Hope this help.
  
  
  
  

• Thanks !!! it's way as u say....
  

• Thanks for the tutorial, appreciate it :)
  

• THANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNK YOU !
  
  
  
  
  

• Suppose I added the toolkit, now I am developing an ASP.NET 3.5 application, will it generate the code & files necessary for .NET framework 3.5??
  

• With the same steps but from the below link you can download AjaxControlToolkit.Binary.NET for .NET 3.5.
  
  ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/.../43475
  
  Hope this help.
  
  
  
  

• Do i need to paste content of AjaxControlToolkit.Binary.NET4 (leaving AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite )in my bin , i am getting the dll of size 5.26mb is it ok
  
  thanks
  

• 
  
  
  You can add the AjaxControlToolkit.dll only as reference to your Project or Website..
  
  
  
  

• very easy and quick. thanks a lot
  

• Many thanks.
  The application will be working in an outside server, do I therefore need to copy the bin directory onto the application directory?
  Warm regards
  Pat
  

• Yes you need to do that ,
  
  as I mentioned before you need to add the DLL in your Web project/Site, by right click in your web Project/Site then choose Add Reference. Therefore when you publish your project the DLL will automatically added to your files.
  
  
  Best Regards.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Very easy to install.Nice steps...
  

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  Dear sifo,
  There is no new controls but the new release fixes a security issue and more than twenty-five bugs.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• I dont have ajax extension tab in VS 2010 Ultimate.
  
  Any idea about it?
  

• Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "AjaxControlToolkit.Properties.Resources.NET4.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "AjaxControlToolkit" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed.
  

• as i had complete all the steps of ajax after doin all steps all ajax control are shwn in my new tab bt wen i drag one of control to my page they are not dragable. wt should i do for this.......................
  

• thanks it helped me lot
  

• which ajax control should I use for tab page in ASP.NET 4.0? If I put any control in tabcontainer, then that control disappears. How can I use it?
  

• Dear Sray.
  
  kindly find this sample which illustrate how dose it work:
  http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/Samples/Tabs/Tabs.aspx
  
  

• is there autoComplete Control in this kit??
  

• Dear Omar,
  
  Yes you can there is AutoCompleteExtender Control.
  Try to find this example :
  http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/Samples/AutoComplete/AutoComplete.aspx
  

• i downloaded the kit but when i chose to add it to visual webpart it never appears, it only appears on web application
  

• i added the toolkit as instructed but all the controls became disabled. I dont know why. May be something is wrong somewhere. I can see all of them but they are not usefull to me.
  Any help?
  

• wow., it'z really awesome and simple..!!
  anyhow thankyu' for a warm intro'...
  

• After downloading the ajax toolkit in visual studio 2010 , am getting this error "Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "AjaxControlToolkit.Properties.Resources.NET4.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "AjaxControlToolkit" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed. "
  

• Dear Ramya,
  Did you add ScriptManager to the page where ajaxtoolkit used.
  

• i installed as above, ajax 4.0 tool kit. added the reference to web applicaiton project. tried the calendar extender and agot:
  
  Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "AjaxControlToolkit.Properties.Resources.NET4.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "AjaxControlToolkit" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed.
  

• Thanks, it was very helpful.
  :)
  

• I did all the steps above but it does'nt work !!!!!!!!!!
  

• Dear Silver,
  what's the problem that you found?
  

• thanks for a very helpful post...
  

• Can I use this in Visual Studio Web Developer EXPRESS?
  
  Thanks!
  

• Dear mkoch,
  Yes,AJAX Toolkit is supported for all editions.
  
  
  

• I have downloaded the ajaxtoolkit. please let me know where to extract the files?
  

• I have added Ajax toolkit but controls are not dragable on webpage... wats d problem?
  

• Dear bally
  As mentioned before, You can find it in Bin Folder that under AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite folder.
  
  Hope that helps.
  

• I have performed all the steps that ou told but controls are not working when i am trying to drag them from toolbox.nothing is happening at all.
  

• Thank you soo much
  

• Very useful. Thanks a bunch...
  

• Assalamalaikum Yousef Bhai........
  Your blog is really helpful to me when i'm searching for TabContainer.........
  All the best......
  

• Right on the target. Thanks a bundle :)
  

• controls with extender suffix are not working
  

• Dear shubham,
  Could you please explain more.
  

• i do all of this step but my ajax toolkit objects are transparent. what can i do?
  

• I have installed visual studio 2010 but i dont know ajax toolkit is installed with vs10. is ajax toolkit ll come with vs10?
  

• Dear VeeR
  Actually, you need to implement the above steps you add AJAX Tollkit to your environment.
  

• Every thing worked as said but exception occured while using the tk items and a popup at VS 2K10 IDE about file "ScriptControlBase.cs" ????????????
  Any Help on this one?
  

• Hello,
  for all who can not see the new AJAX Folder!
  
  Only in WebApplication available ....lol
  

• Thanks mate for posting this.
  I did this and add tabs on screen. When i clicked on view in the browser, got run time error."Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "AjaxControlToolkit.Properties.Resources.NET4.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "AjaxControlToolkit" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed. "
  Do you happen to have any idea about this?
  
  Thanks again.
  

• Dear Abhishek,
  
  Try to drag the ToolkitScriptManager onto your form then use the other Ajax Toolkit Controls.
  
  Hope that helps,
  

• Very Helpful
  Thank you
  

• it really worked as u described here..thanx a lot..
  

• Hi Yousef,
  
  This is a great post.  I followed your directions to install the AJAX Control Toolkit 4 to VS 2010.  After I brought the dll into the toolkit, I found that my controls were ghosted out.  I verified that 2010 only uses framework 4.0, so that can't be it.  Another site said that sometimes when you unplug your mouse and plug it back it, that the controls will be selectable.  Unfortunately this didn't work either.
  
  
  Would you please help me with this?
  
  Thanks!
  
  Amy
  
  

• Mystery solved! I didn't realize that the framework for new projects defaulted to 3.5. Once I opened up a new one and changed it to 4.0, the controls did show up! Thanks again for such a useful site. :)
  
  Amy
  

• Excellent and very nice, It helped me a lot. Thanks for your explanation.
  

• Nice post simple to understand
  

• Worked exactly as you said. Thanks.
  

• Thanks a lot! very simple easy to get
  

• Hello,
  We have a .NET VS 2005 project using (System.Web.Extentions) Ajax 1.0.61025.0 and we would like to update this project to VS2010 and .NET framework 4.0.
  
  We have installed AJAX Control Toolkit 4 on VS 2010 as decribe below.
  The problem: When I point to the System.Web.Extentions namespace in the .NET framework directory, I have a message error as follows:
  
  The type or namespace name 'ScriptManager' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web.UI' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
  
  I if point to System.Web.Extentions in the AJAX directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025), then I have a another error message as follows:
  
  Assembly 'AjaxControlToolkit, Version=4.1.40412.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e' uses 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' which has a higher version than referenced assembly 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'
  
  Any one have an idea to migrate my project VS2005/FrameWork 2.0/ Ajax 1.0.61025.0 to VS2010/FrameWork 4.0/Ajax latest vertion
  
  Thanks in advance for your comments and help.
  Raphy
  
  
  

• thanks it worked for me
  

• Just another thank you for your clear and concise instructions. TNX!
  

• For the following problem,
  
  "Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "AjaxControlToolkit.Properties.Resources.NET4.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "AjaxControlToolkit" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed".
  
  Please add the "scriptmanager" control at the top of ur page.
  
  

• How do I deploy to web server?
  Could not find any "Microsoft AJAX 4.0 Extensions redistributable"
  

• helpful post, thank you!
  

• Excellent post - thank you.
  

• Excellent thank you very much.
  

• i have installed the toolkit as u said, but even after that a few controls in it dont work , i have to again repeat the above said process,then m able to add those controls , but even after that when i execute d page the control goes into my master page and never returns
  
  what to do ????
  

• Hii.. Itz a great post..!! it was really helpful.. But i have a problem in using the Ajax toolkit controls. I am not able to drag and drop the controls in the designer page. Pls help me out..Thanks in advance.
  

• Am not sure why this problem occur. It seems there is a problem with the VS.
  I recommend you to add the DLL as a reference in your web site or project.
  
  Hope that helps,
  

• Thank u for replying.. I tried adding the DLL as reference.. still it didnt work.. Some of the controls are still blocked in the designer page. Pls help me in finding out the solution..!!
  

• Thanks for this nice and easy guide :)
  

• Thanks alot , nice and useful article
  

• Thank you so much! Very useful and easy to follow guide.
  

• hi..i do all of this step + i edit the web.config because they show the msg :
  Tuesday, June 07, 2011 7:30 AM by Salman Farooq
  
  For the following problem,
  
  "Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "AjaxControlToolkit.Properties.Resources.NET4.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "AjaxControlToolkit" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed".
  
  but now it's ask for the path of the file "ScriptObjectBuilder.cs" which is no found !!! Help pls
  

• When I run my project on my development machine, everything runs fine. But when I deploy it to the Alpha server, it gives me the error:
  
  Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "AjaxControlToolkit.Properties.Resources.NET4.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "AjaxControlToolkit" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed.
  
  I have made sure that the appropriate AjaxControlToolkit.dll is deployed with it and I cannot find any significant discrepencies with the web.config files. Why would it work on my development machine and not on the Alpha server?
  

• Dear cyrine
  ScriptObjectBuilder one of the most important and basic css files for ajax Extender.
  Try to re-added it to your solution without any changing on the configurations.
  
  
  

• Dear Alan,
  Have you added the DLL to your Website/Web Project by clicking right on your project, choose Add reference.
  

• hii.. ,
  thank you for providing tutorials i really enjoyed it....
  

• I have vs 2010 with Ajax Extension 4.0.0.0, the ajaxtoolkit I am getting from codeplex is of version 4.1.50508.0 which gives error due to different versions of AJAX. Can Someone tell me how can I update the ajax extensions of my VS 2010 or give me download link of version 4.0.0.0 ajaxtoolkit ?
  
  Regards
  Vijay V.
  

• You can find it in the link that I shared in the post.
  

• Thanks for the tutorial... really helpful :)
  

• thanks a lot, helped me a lot
  

• Thankx a lot, I got stucked in the middle of it. Didn't know the toolbox controls resides in the sample site folder.
  

• Are all of the language entries within the "Bin" directory really required within that directory if the only language you support is English?
  
  P.S. GREAT GUIDE! Solved a number of headaches for me!
  

• thanks...i need it and once again thanks a lot
  

• thanks.. very useful one ... precise and nice...
  

• Thanks a lot.It is very useful.
  

• its good i did as u said. but the Toolkit is not showing in toolbox...whatt to do..
  

• whAT IS DIFF BETWEEN AJAX 3.5 AND AJAX 4.0 TOOLKIT
  

• thank u so much it worked for me
  

• Excellent information just not sure why VS does not include these in the install.
  

• I wish ALL companies would include clear and concise instructions such as these. Thank You.
  
  --jerry
  

• I want Ajax Toolkit for visual studio 2008
  

• Really it's great teaching Thanks a lot
  

• Excellent information,thank u so much
  

• thanx a lot,it helps me a lot in my study,thankyou sooo...oooo muchhhhhhhhh......
  

• Thank you very much for the tip about ToolkitScriptManager, really helped me out of a jam.
  

• Hi all,
  I am using VS 2010 and trying to add AjaxControlKit with VS 2010 bt after installing the package from Codeplex when refering to AjaxControlToolkit.dll it shows following error
  "Could not load type 'System.Runtime.Versoning.TargetFrameworkAttribute' from assembly'mscorlib,Verson=4.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'."
  Please provide solution,
  Thnx in advance...
  

• Dear Nikhil,
  May be you are targeting the project with framework which less that 4.0.
  

• on "ajax extensions" tab, right click then select "choose items..." then select (check the checkboxes!)whatever you don't have like: scriptmanager(it's vital!) ,timer,update panel etc. hope was helpful for your prob.
  

• nice post!
  

• Hi friends,
  
  I have using VS 2010 and i do all the steps for installation of ajax toolkit but all the controls are transparent. how to solve this problem plz any one help me...and mail me @ rameshjogi.net@gmil.com
  

• Thank you very much, it's really very useful for me.
  Thanks again.... :)
  

• Hi Friends,
  
  I found the solution for,
  
  "all the controls are transparent." problem
  
  Solution :
  Change the Target Framework to 4.0 (only if the controls are disabled)
  (How to do this --> goto Project --> Project Properties --> Application TAB
  You will see Target Framework, change it to 4.0 )
  A Dialog Box Appears Click 'Yes' then Project Reloads.
  
  
  Cheers!!!
  --------------------
  for problems like Tab Hides Automatically,
  1) right-click the General Tab Section and Click 'Reset Toolbox'
  2) Retry the same procedure stated above after Changing the Target Framework to 4.0 (only if the controls are disabled)
  

• great explanation thanks yaar
  

• Thank UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
  

• Well done guys , love you all
  

• Any of you guys using SharePoint 2010, VS 2010 comes with Version 4.0 which is incompatible. You must install the 3.5 version. It will start working right away.
  

• Scratch that last comment, it installed but is still not working. It is the 4.0 Dot Net framework that is incompatible. The AJAX 3.5/4.0 is probably coincidence.
  

• Really Very Nice Work...Thanks
  

• Thanx Sir..... Its helpful.....
  

• nice post........thanx for d information
  

• Thank you so much for this wonderful post.You are a life saver!
  

• Mil racias, me fue de utilidad. Aprecio su esfuerzo
  

• thanks of providing this link and i will use this and with you.
  
  

• i install that.but tabpalenl option is missing.,pls help me
  

• Thanks for giving the good instraction for use ajax toolkit
  

• Thanks man, it is really helpful ...
  

• Thanks , It is really helpful
  

• I need Balloon Popup control so I use Ajax 4.0.
  
  if I use 4.0, then Some of the asp.net controls are not working
  like grid view(edit,update,delete operations), popup controls are not working.
  
  
  How to work further steps....
  
  Note:
  I also tried,
  1.
  (or)
  2..
  
  Please reply me....
  

• Dear Mohankumar,
  
  Is there any erore message. kindly check if there is client errors.
  

• Hey Yousef_Jadallah,
  
  No error msg display when i use 4.0 instead of 3.5 ajax tool kit.
  

• Although having programmed for many years, it's still nice once in a while to meet a how_to that simply outlines the shortest path to achieve an objective.
  Excellent work this article
  

• Mohankumar,
  
  Actually we cann't figure out your problem if there is no error exception, you can use firebug or any browser development tool to track the client error message.
  
  

• Nice tutorial. Thank you :)
  

• Thank you very much
  

• Its really helpful.I also had the error "Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "AjaxControlToolkit.Properties.Resources.NET4.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "AjaxControlToolkit" at compile time.
  
  BUT AFTER DRAG THE "TOOLKIT SCRIPT MANAGER" ON TO THE FORM THE PROBLEM SOLVED.
  THANK YOUUUUU
  

• thanks for helping towords new techology
  

• Many thanks Ya man
  

• Thank you so much for the instructions :)
  

• Thanks for the information Sir....Thanks a lot
  

• Thank u so much sir/mam
  

• No confusion ...good Explanation ....Grate
  

• I am very happy to read this. This is the kind of manual that needs to be given and not the random misinformation that is at the other blogs. Appreciate your sharing this greatest doc.
  

• Thanks abdullah you helped me
  

• thanks it works...
  

• Isit compatible with VS 2012? why i cant use it in VS 2012? =(
  

• Thanks alot, its very easy...
  

• I find this very useful.
  
  Thanks. Good job done.
  

• Great post... really found useful.
  

• sir some controls of ajax control toolkit is not working after adding the tab of ajax control toolkit
  

• I have using your site and add the ajex toolkit
  Thank's for help me
  

• Thanks, man!
  
  Works like a boss!
  

• thanks hazrat !
  it really works
  

• Every thing is fine but 1 tool validatorCalloutexpander currently not working in this tool but i question who to solve this Question.
  

• Awesome instructions. I have been trying to install the tool kit through nuget and kept getting errors. This worked great. Thanks.
  

• HI,
  
  I have one problem with this. After I imported already then all new added controls are disable. Is there anywhere to enable them?
  

• I FOUND THIS USEFUL TOO.
  
  

• Very helpful..........Nice post
  Thanks
  

• Very Helpful, keep doing job :)
  

• Thanks ..........Thanks
  

• Hai I installed ajaxcontroltoolkit4.0 in my vs 2010 project and all controld it displaying.But my tab container not working.It got stuck when click on next tab.Please reply.
  

• thank you sir,,,
  i have understood very easily ...
  

• thanks you ...
  i easily added ajax tool kit on my toolbox after read your steps...
  thank you very much.....
  

• Wow!Work great. Thank you.
  

• Thank you Jadallah. Very clear and helpful
  

• It is very helpful to me......... Thank you....
  
  

• really very useful.. thank you very much.
  

• Very Good, thank you
  

• Is there Ajax inbuilt in .net 4.0
  

• I for instance assembling useful info , this post has got me even more information!
  .
  

• Thanks
  

• thank you so much! It was so helpful :)
  

• hi,
  i have done same process many times its works but know when creating a new tab(name) i could see it in my properties window but when adding the ajax tool kit dll nothing happening and new tab is also disappearing from my properties window???what might be the problem..??
  

• Not properties window its Tools
  

• Thanks a lot mate!!
  

• Thanks dude.,,, useful information.,
  

• Thanks a bunch. exactly what i was looking for.
  

• this is very useful in and it explained everything in such a simple manner.this made my work easy.
  thank you
  

• good