ASP.Net Ajax: How to add a custom control to the asp.net 2.0 toolbox from its DLL

Question

I have a MS AJAX toolkit DLL which I want to add to the toolbox items as a tab.

How do I go about in doing this?

Answer 1

1. Open the toolbox on the left-hand side of the IDE and find the Ajax Controls Tab

2. Right Click in the Tab, and select Choose Items (will take some time to load) (the image shows a click on the General tab instead of the Ajax Control Toolkit:
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3. After the Choose Toolbox Items window opens, click on the .NET Framework Components tab:

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Finally click on the Browse... button, and choose your DLL from there.

After that, your Control should appear in the tab.