Ajax in Visual Studio 2008/Framework v2.0

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Mr. Magic

I have a new machine with Windows 7/Visual Studio 2008. I am working on a
..Net 2.0 website. When I bring it up, the conversion wizard runs and then it
tell me it can't find System.Web.Extensions.ScriptManager.

Do I need to install the Ajax toolkit to be able to compile the .Net 2.0
website with Ajax? If so, what is the link for it?

TIA - Jeff.
 
Mr. Magic said:
I have a new machine with Windows 7/Visual Studio 2008. I am working on a
.Net 2.0 website. When I bring it up, the conversion wizard runs and then
it tell me it can't find System.Web.Extensions.ScriptManager.

Do I need to install the Ajax toolkit to be able to compile the .Net 2.0
website with Ajax? If so, what is the link for it?

TIA - Jeff.
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ASP.NET AJAX requires the 3.5 Framework. If you've chosen a 2.0 project or
website, you won't have access to those libraries. You need to choose a 3.5
project or website.

-Scott
 
But I was able to do Ajax in a .Net 2.0 project under VS 2005. I did have to
add the toolkit.

Is the same true for 2008? I have to add the toolkit?

Converting the site to 3.5 is not really an option. Plus I don't understand
why it would work under 2005 but not under 2008.

TIA - J.
 
Mr. Magic said:
But I was able to do Ajax in a .Net 2.0 project under VS 2005. I did have
to add the toolkit.

Is the same true for 2008? I have to add the toolkit?

Converting the site to 3.5 is not really an option. Plus I don't
understand why it would work under 2005 but not under 2008.

TIA - J.
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It is possible to "update" a copy of Visual Studio 2005 by adding the ASP
..NET AJAX Toolkit to it and that's why you were able to do it with VS 2005.
But understand that you weren't *just* adding the Toolkit (which is just a
series of .NET Server Controls that have JavaScript API's), you were also
adding the fundamental types to do AJAX as well as the Microsoft AJAX Client
Library.

Now, ASP.NET AJAX (but not the toolkit) is a native part of .NET 3.5, so if
you want to do AJAX stuff, you shouldn't go backwards and get the *older*
version of AJAX, you just use what's buit into .NET.

Your server supports 2.0 but not 3.5?

-Scott
 
Mr. Magic said:
Right. We only have Framework 2.0 on the server. No 3.5 yet.
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Then your stuck between a rock and hard-place. The older ASP .NET AJAX
Toolkit is not compatible with VS 2008, so you can't do what you've done in
the past and because your server doesn't support ASP .NET 3.5, you can't use
the current version of ASP .NET AJAX.

Sounds like you should stick with VS 2005 until your server can handle 3.5.

-Scott
 
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