AJAX Control Toolkit — January 2013 Release

This release of the Ajax Control Toolkit introduces a new set of chart controls and several important security and bug fixes.

• New Chart Controls - This release includes 5 new chart controls: AreaChart, BarChart, BubbleChart, LineChart, and PieChart. All of these controls work with IE9 and newer and recent versions of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari.
• HTML Sanitizer - The HTML Sanitizer used by the HtmlEditorExtender has been updated with this release to block additional types of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks described by OWASP. The Ajax Control Toolkit now contains over 120 unit tests for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.
• Request Validation - This release includes an important bug fix concerning a compatibility issue with ASP.NET 4.5 Request Validation.

Ajax Control Toolkit Version

The version number of this release of the Ajax Control Toolkit follows a different format than previous versions. For example, the previous version of the .NET 3.5 version of the Ajax Control Toolkit was version "3.5.60919" where the number 6 represents the number of years that the Ajax Control Toolkit has been released and 0919 represents the date of the release (September 19).

We have reached the 7th year of the Ajax Control Toolkit. Unfortunately, the value "3.5.70123" is incompatible with the AssemblyVersion attribute because the number 70123 is too large (bigger than a UInt16). Therefore, we switched to using the version format "3.5.7.0123". Unlike the previous version format, which worked for 7 years, this new version format should work for 65,534 years.

What's in the Download

This AJAX Control Toolkit download contains the AjaxControlToolkit.dll assembly, localized resource files, and the Ajax Control Toolkit Sample Site. Follow the instructions below to add the AJAX Control Toolkit to the Visual Studio Toolbox.

http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act.ashx

You can download the source code for the Ajax Control Toolkit from CodePlex:

http://AjaxControlToolkit.CodePlex.com

Note: When opening the Ajax Control Toolkit solution in Visual Studio 2008, you will receive a security warning because the Ajax Control Toolkit project files have been modified to use the Microsoft Ajax Minifier. Select the option to Load the Project Normally.

Reporting Issues

Please report any issues that you discover with the Ajax Control Toolkit at the Ajax Control Toolkit issue tracker:

http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basic

Learn More

The ASP.NET Ajax website contains tutorials, videos, and sample code to help you learn how to use the AJAX Control Toolkit:

http://www.ASP.net/ajax