I  just downloaded and installed MS Web Developer Express 2008 and  the latest Ajax Toolkit I could find.  After installing the toolkit into Developer I saw that the tab container was there but the tab panel control was missing.  Any ideas how to correct this?  I saw something on that problem  dated 2007 but the fix didn't make sense to me.

 

Freddie

Shouldn't be an issue - I've just checked my toolkit and it is also without the panels - to be honest, I think this is more by design than anything else. I take it you are a design view drag/dropper? :o)

 

Anyway, you will still be able to add the panels in on the source view:

 

<ajax:TabPanel runat="server" HeaderText="My Panel" ID="Tab1">

    'stuff

</ajax:TabPanel> 

 

Hope that helps,

Steve

 

Thanks for the quick reply. The reason I posted this was that prior to downloading the Toolkit I watched Joe Stagner's video at http://www.asp.net/learn/ajax-videos/video-156.aspx about tab panels. The video showed the tab panels listed under his Ajax Toolkit and I wanted to make sure my install was OK. For now I want to be a drag/dropper as much s possible. I don't have a lot of time to sit and learn new code if I can avoid it. I'm an old Hardware guy familiar with C and Fortran trying to learn enough to write a WEB based game (already proven in concept as an app) and also build a WEB site for where I work part time. Initially my boss said OH just use HTML... After I showed him a prototype " He says but LOOk this other site has tabs, rollover links, etc. So here I am. Anyway Thanx and I'll let you know how it worked. Also, if you know how I can add the Tab Panel option to my ToolBox, please let me know. I didn't see the option as part of the original Choose choices offered me. Knowing how to add controls to the tool kit will allow me to make it grow as I learn more. Again, Thanx and I'll try to keep my future posts briefer

 I wish you the best of luck - bosses always love the UI pretty bits!

 

You can add new tabs by either of the following actions:

• Right click the Tab Container that you dropped on the page - click 'add tab panel'
• Click the tab container, then click the little arrow that appears near the top left. This gives you a context sensitive task list to add a panel. This is a much overlooked feature that is included on pretty much every control in Design mode!

 

If you can, I would recommend that you dive into the Source mode and look at the every now and again, so that you can get a handle of what the Drag/Drop interface is doing. I find that hand-coding as opposed to drag/drop gives me much more control over my code, and is much more satisfying!

 

The video from Joe was an older version of the toolkit, I can only assume that the Tollbox item was removed to stop people just dropping Tab Panels on the page without a container!

 

Have fun,

Steve

Thanks, I got the tabs working. I agree with you totally about "hand coding". This drag and drop is new to me. Once I get a warm and fuzzy on asp.net and Ajax I'll start digging into it much deeper. Thanks for the help.

Glad to hear that you sorted it - can you close off this topic by marking one of the posts as the answer?

 

Best of luck,

Steve