RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
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RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
Important

Starting with version Q1 2011 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX are shipped with .NET 3.5 and .NET 4 assemblies only. The following page contains more information about the product support lifecycle of the controls:

http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/getting-started/dotnet-support.aspx

Visual Studio 2008/2010 works with .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5 and .NET 4 projects respectively and you can select the type of the project from a dropdown list which is placed at the top right corner of the dialog box which is shown when you create a new WebSite:

 

Note

Note that the .NET 3.5 SP1 version is required in order to target .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010 (see this blog post for details)

If you use a .NET 3.5/.NET 4 project you will see that the EXE installation wizard of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX automatically installs RadControls in the toolbox. However, if your application is targeting .NET 3.0 or .NET 2.0 you will not see any Telerik controls in the toolbox.

In order to build .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0 applications in VS 2008/2010 using the drag and drop option for the telerik controls, you should add the controls manually to the toolbox (referencing Telerik.Web.UI.dll from the /bin20 folder of the installation).

For this purpose you should go through the following steps:

  1. Expand the Toolbox.

  2. Expand the General Section.

  3. Right-click in the General section and open ChooseItems.

  4. On the .NET Framework Components tab, click Browse.

  5. Browse to the Telerik RadControls installation folder, open the bin20 folder and select the Telerik.Web.UI.dll.

    1. If the EXE was used to install Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET, the bin20 folder is located in

      C:\Program Files\Telerik\RadControls for ASPNET AJAX Q[X] YYYY\Bin20

    2. If the ZIP was used to install Telerik RadControls, the bin20 folder is located in the folder where the installation files have been unzippedPlease, note that if you want to add Telerik RadControls for .NET 2.0 and 3.0 web project you should select the Telerik.Web.UI.dll from the C:\Program Files\Telerik\RadControls for ASPNET AJAX Q[X] YYYY\Bin20 folder

  6. Click Open to confirm. The icons for all controls in the suite will appear in the Toolbox.

     
    Visual Studio 2008 toolbox

  7. When using .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0 you also need to have the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0 installed on the machine.