New AJAX Toolkit Released

Version 1.0.10920.0 of the AJAX toolkit has been published on CodePlex, a set of controls that, together with the AJAX extensions for ASP.NET, makes it easier to build web pages that use the benefits of AJAX. This set of controls can be downloaded from this link. More than 1000 bugs have been fixed in this version and some specific improvements have been included in controls such as the calendar, the autocomplete control, the slider, among others.

If you have been using this set of controls, be sure to update so you can get all the benefits of the fixes, many of them generated by the community, since this project is in practice a Microsoft open source project.

Recently, at a Microsoft Colombia event, there was a discussion about AJAX and the toolkit. An important recommendation for AJAX applications to perform efficiently is not only to have the latest toolkit but to use the Toolkit Script Manager, which improves by almost 80% the performance of applications that use the Script Manager from the ASP AJAX extension. This is possible by combining the script before sending it to the client and removing all the whitespace from the file, which generates a smaller .js file that is sent to the client. (That is what the ToolkitScriptManager does)

Make sure the reference version is 1.0.10920. You can also tell that you are using a more up-to-date version by checking the icons in the toolbox. Image attached.

I hope this helps

Juan Carlos Peláez

MCTS

Member of the Microsoft Andean Speaker Group.

Member of the Microsoft Colombia Influencers Group.

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