I finaly have time to start to explore Ajax and am now trying to install it for Visual Studio 2005.  When I download the toolkit from the ASP.Net Ajax site -- everything seams to be geared for Visual Studio 2008.  Can anyone point me to where I can download an Ajax for VS 2005?  Please don't say buy VS 2008, it is not in this years budget.

Thanks

You need to downlaod the following ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0 

 from here

http://www.asp.net/AJAX/downloads/

I have ASP.Net 3.5 installed on this machine.  Do I need to install AJAX Extension 1.0.  When I try to install AJAX Ext 1.0 it is asking me if I wish to repair or remove it, not install it.

Ok I wasn't sure you had the ASP.Net 3.5 installed.

Did you check to see if there is an Ajax Web template available when you try and create a new web project?

The version of your ASP.NET framework installation is irrelevant - you can run previous versions of the toolkit on newer versions of the framework quite happily.

This is the page you need for running in vs2005:

http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=11121

IMPORTANT: Make sure to get the Ajax Extensions v1.0 from here: http://www.asp.net/ajax/downloads/

The top link (AjaxControlToolkit.zip) should suffice, this is however no longer supported. Unfortunately, you will not be able to run the latest version of the toolkit, but version 20229 is pretty stable anyway. Bear in mind that this version is targetted for ASP.NET 2.0

Is there any reason why you can't use Visual Web Developer 2008? That will allow you to use the latest version of the framework. You can use this software for commercial use also, and it is completely free. It acts as a nice stopgap until you are able to buy the full package, it's certainly not as crippled as other people make out.

Let me know if you need any futher information.

Thanks,

Steve