Hello,
I downloaded the toolkit with sourcecode and tried to compile it. It puked. I made sure that all of the dlls were pointing to something valid (more downloads). Once it appeared as if all of the dlls were existing, I tried to build it and got complaints on:
System.Web.Script - couldn't find
ExtenderControl - couldn't find
JavaScriptConverter - couldn't find
Also, it didn't like the project template.
etc...
The reason I'm trying to compile it is that I want to try to add a call to a javascript method within the drop event of the ReOrderList.
From what I can see this first pass at Ajax is similar in complexity to old school com and asp. Why in the world would you want to waste time putting an early stage beta dll in the GAC? It causes problems on our production servers as well as it's hidden (unlike the rest of .NET which just requires a few dlls in the bin folder (very easy)).
Also, if people are downloading and trying to make this actually work, why make it so complicated. There's a GAC object, a toolkit (or maybe 2 toolkits - i can't figure it out yet), a project template man, are we going back to COM and the registry? I started to get used to focusing on solving business problems and not having to spend 3 straight days trying to raise a drop event on the ReOrder control.
Thanks,
Jeff
ASP.NET AJAX needs to be installed for the Toolkit to function. You can download from http://ajax.asp.net.
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