AJAX Control Toolkit Release Notes - September 2012 Release

Version 60919

September 2012 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:
- 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 support for ASP.NET 4.5.

This release also contains fixes for several of the highest voted issues associated with the CascadingDropDown control including:

• 9490 - Don't disable dropdowns in CascadingDropDown
• 14223 - CascadingDropDown Reset or Setting SelectedValue from WebMethod
• 12189 - CascadingDropDown not obeying disabled state of DropDownList
• 22942 - CascadingDropDown infinite loop (with solution)
• 8671 - CascadingDropdown options is null or undefined
• 14407 - CascadingDropDown: populated client event happens too often
• 17148 - CascadingDropDown - Add "UseHttpGet" property
• 10221 - No NotNull check in CascadingDropDown
• 12228 - Provide property for case-insensitive DefaultValue lookup in CascadingDropdown

We also fixed the following two issues which are not directly related to the CascadingDropDown control:

• 27108 - CalendarExtender: Bug when selecting December shifts to January.
• 27041 - Input controls with HTML5 types do not post back in Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Finally, we integrated several Pull Requests contributed by the community:

• Added French localized resources for the AjaxFileUpload
• Resolved an issue which prevented the AjaxFileUpload control from working with pages that require query string variables.
• Extended the AjaxFileUploadEventArgs class to include the current file index in the queue and the total number of files in the queue.
• Fixed an issue with TabContainer and TabPanel which caused the OnActiveTabChanged event to fire too often.

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