In order to be able to work with AJAX ASP.NET Control Toolkit, the following should be available:

·         Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or you can also use the Visual Web Developer Express 2005 (offered for free from Microsoft on http://msdn.microsoft.com/express)

·         Download AJAX extensions from http://ajax.asp.net and install them on your computer after installing Visual studio.

·         Download AJAX control toolkit from http://ajax.asp.net link to code project or directly from code project (it is a zip file).

·         After download, open Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer and add a tab in the Toolbox named AJAX Toolkit.

·         Right Click in this tab and choose add items. Browse to the sample directory of where you did extract the toolkit and then to bin directory and choose the DLL.

·         This is all. You have AJAX control Toolkit installed and you can start building your controls.

Well, you should be ready by now to begin AJAX Toolkit implementation.