Welcome to the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

Choose from any of the samples on the left to see the live controls in action, and experiment with their different possibilities.

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is an open-source project built on top of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework. It is a joint effort between Microsoft and the ASP.NET AJAX community that provides a powerful infrastructure to write reusable, customizable and extensible ASP.NET AJAX extenders and controls, as well as a rich array of controls that can be used out of the box to create an interactive Web experience.

The AJAX Control Toolkit contains more than 30 controls that enable you to easily create rich, interactive web pages.

To get started, and to install the Ajax Control Toolkit, visit the AJAX Control Toolkit Project Page on CodePlex.

To learn more, read the Getting Started Tutorial, or the other walkthroughs, tutorials and videos shown on the left.

AJAX Control Toolkit Release Notes - May 2009 Release
Version 3.0.30512

This release includes three important new controls:

• HTMLEditor

  The HTMLEditor control allows you to easily create and edit HTML content. You can edit in design mode, as a rich text editor, or in source view to edit the HTML markup directly.

  Many thanks to by Obout http://www.obout.com for building this.

• ComboBox

  The ComboBox control provides a DropDownList of items, combined with TextBox. Different modes determine the interplay between the text entry and the list of items.

  Many thanks to Dan Ludwig for building this.

• ColorPicker

  The ColorPicker Control Extender can be attached to any ASP.NET TextBox control. It provides client-side color-picking functionality with UI in a popup control.

  Many thanks to Alexander Turlov for building this.

More than twenty important bug fixes have been made in this release, across many controls, corresponding to some of the most requested fixes.

We would like to specially thank all the patch contributors from the Toolkit community whose fixes helped make this release possible. We recognize their names on the Toolkit Patch Hall of Fame.

New tutorials have been created, with improved integration in the ASP.NET AJAX Web site.

The TemplateVSI project has been removed. See the new tutorial: Creating a New Extender for information on how to create an Extender, without needing a Visual Studio Extender project template.

Note: This May 2009 release: Toolkit version 3.0.30512 is only for users who are building on top of .NET Framework 3.5 using Visual Studio 2008.
If you are using .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 then you should use the earlier Toolkit version 1.0.20229.