ASP.NET Extensions – Free AJAX Extensions for ASP.NET

PaulSpoerry | August 23, 2008

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The AJAX Control Toolkit is a joint project between the community and Microsoft. Built upon the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, the Toolkit aims to be the biggest and best collection of web-client components available. I’ve been using several of these on an internal .NET project and I’m pretty impressed. A few of the control produce nice effects, but take a bit more to implement than I care for, but it’s still worth checking out.

The AJAX Control Toolkit can be found on CodePlex here. You can also see an online example of each control in action at the Extensions sample website.

The examples shown include:

Accordion
AlwaysVisibleControl
Animation
AutoComplete
Calendar
CascadingDropDown
CollapsiblePanel
ConfirmButton
DragPanel
DropDown
DropShadow
DynamicPopulate
FilteredTextBox
HoverMenu
ListSearch
MaskedEdit
ModalPopup
MutuallyExclusiveCheckBox
NoBot
NumericUpDown
PagingBulletedList
PasswordStrength
PopupControl
Rating
ReorderList
ResizableControl
RoundedCorners
Slider
SlideShow
Tabs
TextBoxWatermark
ToggleButton
UpdatePanelAnimation
ValidatorCallout