AJAX Control Toolkit

Learn how to extend your ASP.NET AJAX applications using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit: Installation and getting started is a video that starts with the basics, including downloading and installing the toolkit.

Blog Posts

• Four ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript UI Methods You Should Learn: Dave Ward has another great post in his series about ASP.NET AJAX's client-side JavaScript Helper Methods.
• Five Tab Themes Created for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit: Matt Berseth posts some really cool themes for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit's Tab control. Very slick!
• CNN Style Scrolling Ticker with the Marquee Toolkit Control: Matt Berseth shows how to implement a scrolling marquee UI using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.
• Creating a Google Suggest Style Filter with the ASP.NET AJAX AutoComplete Control: Matt Berseth covers how to use the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit's AutoComplete control to get auto filtering support within a textbox.
• How To: Use the HoverMenuExtender for GridView RowCommands: Matt Berseth shows how to user HoverMenuExtender with GridView RowCommands.
• ASP.NET AJAX History How Do I Video: To learn more about the new ASP.NET AJAX history support, watch this great 15-minute video from Bertrand Le Roy of the ASP.NET team.  He demonstrates how to AJAX-enable an <asp:Wizard> control and then add history marker points to it.
• Building a grouping Grid with GridView and ASP.NET AJAX toolkit CollapsiblePanel: Muhammad Mosa shows how to use CollapsiblePanelExtender to build collapsible master detail with GridView
• Master\Detail with CollapsiblePanelExtender and edit detail with HoverMenuExtender using GridView: Muhammad Mosa shows how to display edit menu using HoverMenuExtender on Master Detail CollapsiblePanelExtender with GridView. This post requires that you read Matt's How To: Use the HoverMenuExtender for GridView RowCommands
• Building on demand Master/Detail grouping Grid with GridView and ASP.NET AJAX toolkit CollapsiblePanelExtender: Muhammad Mosa shows how to build on depand collapsible details using CollapsiblePanelExtender with ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods and GridView.

Here are some choice example videos:

Videos

• How Do I: ASP.NET AJAX Enable an Existing Web Service?
• How Do I: Implement Dynamic Partial-Page Updates with ASP.NET AJAX?
• How Do I: Implement the AJAX Incremental Page Display Pattern?
• How Do I: Build a Custom ASP.NET AJAX Server Control?

Webcast

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Learn how to extend your ASP.NET AJAX applications using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. We will also see how ASP. Net’s standard DropDownList can become AJAX-enabled using the Cascading Dropdown control extender from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Exploring ASP.NET AJAX – Part II

After exploring ASP.NET AJAX Extensions and the Update Panel control, here we start exploring the other handy controls such as Update Progress, Triggers etc., Also, we will explore how Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX helps web developers make network callbacks dire

Also, read Kazi Manzur Rashid's excellent article on ASP.NET AJAX Control Development.

There is a large number of videos and screencasts that delve deep into ASP.NET AJAX.  Be sure to check them out!