If you haven't started to mess around with the ASP.NET AJAX extensions then shame on you...

I installed AJAX 1.0 a while back, but the annoying problem I had was that no where actually told me how to put the new extensions into my Toolbox - Instead I literally had to remember the names and use the Intellisense. I said to myself once I had found out how to get them to show up I would post up a little tutorial.

After a bit of searching I realised my problem was that I couldn't find the AjaxControlToolkit.dll anywhere on my machine even though I had followed all the tutorials (I eventually managed to get a copy, and have uploaded it here in case you need it).

So to get the extensions to show in your toolbox in Visual Web Developer just do the following:

1.) I am assuming you have already installed the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions (OR you have the new ASP.NET 3.5 installed - Which comes part of Visual Web Developer 2008)

2.) Make sure you save the Toolkit in a folder that you are not going to move, I saved mine in a folder on my C: drive called ASP.NET Extensions ...  or download this version if you have the same problem I had

3.) Open up Visual Web Developer, now open a website and open any .aspx page, expand the toolkit if its not already and ‘Right Click' in it and Choose ‘Add Tab'

4.) Name the tab ‘Ajax Toolkit' and then right click on the text (There are no usable controls...) and select ‘Choose Items' from the menu.

5.) In the pop up window click the browse button in the bottom right, and find the AjaxControlToolkit.dll select it and press open.

6.) Now click ok in the last pop up window, and you'll be returned to visual web developer with the AJAX Control Toolkit in your toolbox 

Thats it ... You should now be able to use the AJAX Extensions directly from your toolkit