I wanted to use some of the new features in the HTMLExtender that are in the latest version of the toolkit on an existing site.
How easy is it to do this? I see that there is a AjaxControlToolKit.dll file and a .pdb file in the "Bin" directory of my website. Will I just need to install the new toolkit and then replace these two files with the newer ones? Or is it more complicated
than that?
In my experience you update the dll's like you said and then you have to test all of the functionality you implement still works. When I first implemented that and assumed the functionality would be backwards compatible, but that wasn't always the case.
Keep in mind this is an open source community project so multiple developers would work on the project so it was always evolving. Not sure how big of a jump between versions you are trying to go, but keep that in mind and you will save yourself some time
and aggrevation.
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Upgrading ajaxtoolkit is similar to upgrading any 3'rd party componenet, the steps are:
Replace the ajax toolkit dll in your bin folder with the new one.
Open web.config file and locate the refenrces to your ajax toolkit library and change the dll version number to the new one.
if you are refericing ajax toolkit dll directly from your pages/user controls, you need to locate the "Register" tag and replace and update the correct dll version
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How easy is it to upgrade to a new version of the Ajax Toolkit for an existing website?
Aug 07, 2012 05:49 PM|LINK
I wanted to use some of the new features in the HTMLExtender that are in the latest version of the toolkit on an existing site.
How easy is it to do this? I see that there is a AjaxControlToolKit.dll file and a .pdb file in the "Bin" directory of my website. Will I just need to install the new toolkit and then replace these two files with the newer ones? Or is it more complicated than that?
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Re: How easy is it to upgrade to a new version of the Ajax Toolkit for an existing website?
Aug 07, 2012 06:15 PM|LINK
In my experience you update the dll's like you said and then you have to test all of the functionality you implement still works. When I first implemented that and assumed the functionality would be backwards compatible, but that wasn't always the case. Keep in mind this is an open source community project so multiple developers would work on the project so it was always evolving. Not sure how big of a jump between versions you are trying to go, but keep that in mind and you will save yourself some time and aggrevation.
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Re: How easy is it to upgrade to a new version of the Ajax Toolkit for an existing website?
Aug 08, 2012 03:28 AM|LINK
Upgrading ajaxtoolkit is similar to upgrading any 3'rd party componenet, the steps are:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1506021.aspx/1
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