Can somebody explain the differences, status and future of the various ASP.NET AJAX libraries and to

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Published on 2010-03-25T12:16:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 12:23 UTC
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I'm confused about the differences and relationships between the various Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX components/libraries/toolkits and particularly the naming of them.

It starts off relatively simple with ASP.NET AJAX itself:

  • ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (available for ASP.NET 2.0 in a separate package called ASP.NET 1.0 Extensions)
  • ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 (included with ASP.NET 3.5)
  • ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 (included with ASP.NET 4.0)

Then come the various projects on CodePlex and elsewhere:

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (aka Original Ajax Control Toolkit)

  • Samples
  • CodePlex
  • It seems that the September 2009 Release is the final release of the Original Ajax Control Toolkit and that it's been superseded by...

Ajax Control Toolkit in ASP.NET Ajax Library

Microsoft Ajax Library Preview

Links to useful articles, roadmaps would be useful.

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