Appendix A. Installing ASP.NET AJAX
In this appendix, you’ll learn how to install ASP.NET AJAX and the additional packages available on the official website, such as the ASP.NET Futures, including the ASP.NET AJAX source code. We’ll also explain how to install the Ajax Control Toolkit and how to interact with the Toolkit homepage hosted at the CodePlex website. Because some of the examples presented in the book take advantage of the AdventureWorks database, the last section shows how to use this database in an ASP.NET website.
You can download the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions installer from the official website at http://ajax.asp.net. Figure A.1 shows the Downloads page of the official website. To reach it, click the Downloads button at the top of the page. From this page, you can download the latest release of ASP.NET AJAX as well as additional packages and resources such as the official documentation.
Figure A.1. You can download all the ASP.NET AJAX packages from the Downloads page of the official website.
Once you’ve downloaded the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions installer, you can launch it by double-clicking the executable file. This starts the installation wizard, shown in figure A.2. The installer copies the necessary files to the default installation directory, which is the following:
