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How to make Ajax Control Toolkit working with SharePoint 2010? Here are the steps to make Ajax Control Toolkit working with SharePoint 2010. Download Correct (compatible) version of Ajax Control Toolkit. Since current release of Ajax Control Toolkit doesn’t work with SharePoint 2010, you need to download previous release. Maybe Ajax Control Toolkit team will address this issue and we’ll be able to use current Toolkit version with SharePoint in future. Until the current release is made compatible, please download the  SharePoint 2010 compatible Ajax Control Toolkit from here . Add AjaxControlToolkit.dll reference to your project To use the Ajax Control Toolkit in your SharePoint project, add reference to the AjaxControlToolkit.dll in your project. To use the Ajax Control Toolkit in any web part control add the following lines to register the Ajax Control Toolkit namespace. <% @ Register Assembly ="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.30930.28736, Culture=neutral, Public

Overview Building a distributed system is a very common task for many programmers. However, doing so involves confronting numerous design challenges. In this chapter, you will review two key aspects of many distributed systems (interfaces and XML web services), followed by an overview of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). Also, you will survey several core distributed APIs found within the Windows OS. With this historical background in place, the remainder of this chapter will introduce you to the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) API. Here you will learn about the problems WCF attempts to solve, study the ABC’s (addresses, bindings, and contracts) of building a WCF application, and explore some common WCF development tools. The information presented here will function as the backbone for the remainder of the class. A Working Definition of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) To begin your examination of WCF, you will start with a r