A new version of the AJAX Control Toolkit has been released and is now available. You can download it from here.
There are three new controls:
- HTMLEditor – essentially a WYSIWYG editor (similar to FCKEditor). Demo.
- ComboBox – combines the functionality of a TextBox and DropDownList control. Demo.
- ColorPicker – a control which generates a color swatch (in a popup) for users to pick a color from. Demo.
Find out more about the new release here.

I am running VS2008 with a prior release of the Ajax toolkit. Now that a new release is available how do I install and replace the existing version?
Hi Glenn,
You should find all the information you require here: http://www.asp.net/…/tutorial-47-cs.aspx
Take note of the last section which outlines how to update a previous version of the toolkit.
Hope this helps.