AJAX versions ....

[Liz]

I have both VS2005 and VS2008 installed and now find I need to work on some
code using AJAX extensions/toolkit ... and I'm really a bit lost on what it
is I need to install and hopefully have it work on '05 and '08 without a lot
of pain ...

any help is appreciated ...

TIA

 

[Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]]

AJAX is embedded in 2008, you will need the extensions for 2005. Assuming
you have the latter, it should work just fine in 2008. Or you could just
develop in 2008 and you should be good as far as backward compatibility is
concerned.

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[Liz]

AJAX is embedded in 2008, you will need the extensions for 2005. Assuming
you have the latter, it should work just fine in 2008. Or you could just
develop in 2008 and you should be good as far as backward compatibility is
concerned.

I want to do this work in VS 2005; can I just install the VS 2005 AJAX
toolkit without affecting the VS 2008 toolkit?

my other question is how to import and run a web project on the local
machine; do I have to set up a virtual directory manually or does Visual
Studio have a facility to do this? If I add a virtual directory and point
at the web files root, will IIS load the configuration information from
web.config files?

I thought you could just copy the files to any directory on a machine
running IIS ... ?? doesn't IIS need to "know about" the web site? or does
it learn fast? sorry for the simple-minded question but I've just never had
occasion to do this before .. and I'm confused ... and don't want to clean
up a mess if I do this wrong

TIA