AJAX Control Toolkit Release Notes - January 2013 Release

Version 7.0123

January 2013 release of the AJAX Control Toolkit.

• AJAX Control Toolkit .NET 4.5 – AJAX Control Toolkit for .NET 4.5 and sample site (Recommended).

• AJAX Control Toolkit .NET 4 – AJAX Control Toolkit for .NET 4 and sample site (Recommended).

• AJAX Control Toolkit .NET 3.5 – AJAX Control Toolkit for .NET 3.5 and sample site (Recommended).

Notes:
- Instructions for using the AJAX Control Toolkit with ASP.NET 4.5 can be found at http://stephenwalther.com/archive/2012/09/20/september-2012-release-of-the-ajax-control-toolkit.aspx
- The current version of the AJAX Control Toolkit is not compatible with ASP.NET 2.0. The latest version that is compatible with ASP.NET 2.0 can be found here: 20229.
- Pages using controls from AJAX Control Tookit .NET 3.5 must use the ToolkitScriptManager, rather than the ASP.NET ScriptManager.
- AJAX Control Tookit .NET 4 cannot be loaded in Visual Studio 2008. It requires Visual Studio 2010.
- When using the Ajax Control Toolkit with Visual Studio 2008, you must have Visual Studio Service Pack 1 installed.
- Instructions for contributing a bug report can be found at http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act_contribute_bug.ashx

Getting Started

Learn how to install the toolkit and add the toolkit to the Visual Studio/Visual Web Developer toolbox with the following videos and tutorials.

• Learn how to install the Ajax Control Toolkit at http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act.ashx
• Read answers to frequently asked questions at http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act_faq.ashx
• Learn how to use Ajax Control Toolkit controls at http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act_tutorials.ashx
• View the AJAX Control Toolkit live at http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/samples/

What's New?

The biggest change with this release is the addition of 5 new chart controls.

• New Chart Controls - This release includes 5 new chart controls: AreaChart, BarChart, BubbleChart, LineChart, and PieChart. All of these controls work with IE9 and newer and recent versions of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari.

• HTML Sanitizer - The HTML Sanitizer used by the HtmlEditorExtender has been updated with this release to block additional types of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks described by OWASP. The Ajax Control Toolkit now contains over 220 unit tests for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

• Request Validation - This release includes an important bug fix concerning a compatibility issue with ASP.NET 4.5 Request Validation.

The Ajax Control Toolkit team would like to thank Gil Cohen who helped us identify, create unit tests, and block additional XSS attacks with this release.

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