10. ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Architecture

THE ASP.NET AJAX CONTROL TOOLKIT is a shared source joint project between Microsoft and the developer community that is hosted on CodePlex, www.codeplex.com, which is the Microsoft open source project hosting website. The Toolkit builds on the foundation of ASP.NET AJAX to provide a framework that simplifies the development of extender and script controls we covered in Chapter 5, “Adding Client Capabilities to Server Controls.” In addition to the framework, the Toolkit also comes with numerous pre-built extender and script controls that provide varying levels of functionality that can be used on your projects.

The power of the Toolkit is in the increased productivity that the framework provides, ...

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