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AJAX Control Tookit :
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ColorPicker
Learning By Sample Series




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Foreword
Learning By Sample ?
So, why should I made this tutorial freely accessed by everyone ? Well, surely I am just nobody, I
also just another ordinary person with ordinary knowledge. However, I always feel that some persons in
the internet giving away their tutorial for free and I feel being helped by them. Then, I remember one of
my senior wisdom words : If you want to be given more, then start to give more. And of course, I really
believe those words, since that I already proof it to be right all the time.
Also, Im not an English native speaker, however, I just try to improve my English in any other
way, especially in written format. Thus, I think writing is the best practice to improve my English freely.
However, you will find many grammatical errors in my tutorial, so please send me comments and also
suggestion to improve it.
Then, why the format using Learning By Sample series ? Is it really different with other tutorials
out there ? Ehm, I already wrote three books (in Indonesian) using this kind of format, and many readers
already contact me about how this format really help them to learn from the scratch. So, why in the
world Im not re-create it in English format, right ? Eventhough actually, it is similar with Hands On Lab
series which already famous in Microsoft site previously.
All of my lesson also being designed as short samples and short time exercise. Thus, I hope that
each of tutorial series would take only at least 10-15 minutes maximum to learn. Why keep it short ?
Because many beginner (and even expert) will find boring whenever they must keep studying more than
15 minutes (but you will never get bored when you online in such time right ?).
Another reason is just because many of samples in this series come up from my lecturing task
exercise. So, I just try to compile all my lab exercises in order to keep it tidy and also reusable for my
students. Thats why you will find many unsorted course material inside these series, however, just take
a seat and enjoy the ride !
Requirements
In this series, I try to give simple example about AJAX Control Toolkit. Thus, as you may know
that this toolkit is an open source code and (of course) free to use. Eventhough many programmers
never care about its source code, however, this toolkit really do a lot of fun things in web programming.
All of my samples in this series use Visual Web Developer 2010 Express edition with its SQL
Server Express edition along together. But if you want to try the sampe using Visual Studio in




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commercial license (and please dont use the illegal version), it still can do. And also, you must download
the newest version of AJAX Control Toolkit from www.codeplex.com, just type the name in search
textbox, and you will get it. After extracting all of the package of toolkit, look for AjaxControlToolkit.dll
file inside folder AjaxControlToolkitSample/bin. This file will be the main actor of all the example in this
series.

Prior Knowledge needed
If you really want to follow this series, then you should aware that basic programming
knowledge is needed. You should also familiar with ASP .NET especially for version 3.5 above. And of
course you already know what is the difference between website which use AJAX technique and old
common website.
FYI, Im a VB guy, so please dont complaint if I use VB entirely in this series. But nowadays,
theres no such useful things if we argue about language differences, because I just try to share




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something that I know. So, if you dont like VB and want to have another tutorial with your own favourit
language, then Id be happy to read it. Now, lets get started.





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Lets get started
1. First, ensure that you already open Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Edition
2. Create a newly blank website and give it a name

3. Now, lets create a new blank web page





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4. Afterward, put the AJAX Control Toolkit in our website.
a. First, copy the AJAXControlToolkit.dll from downloaded folder

b. Create special folder bin in your solution explorer




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c. Then paste the dll file into your bin folder

d. Next, go to your Toolbox and right click inside it and click Choose Item sub menu

e. In the dialog box, click button Browse




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f. Then choose the .dll file which reside in your bin folder

g. And after you click OK button, you will see bunch of new control in your Toolbox. So, it
means that we are ready to continue this sample..




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5. Now, the first step in implementing AJAX Control Toolkit is dragging component
ToolkitScriptManager on top of your web page (or just simply double click it).





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6. Lets try to put something in the webpage. I start with a table which will handle our dummy input
simulation.
a. Click menu Table Insert Table

b. In dialog box, we create table with three rows and two columns

7. Ok, come on type something in the table




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8. Next, put two textbox in each rows.

9. And a button in last row to execute it.

10. Change property text of button into Execute




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11. Now, click Smart Tag in first Textbox
a. Choose Add Extender, then pick NumericUpDown Extender






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b. Set the property minimum and maximum of Extender

c. Set property width of extender

12. For the second Textbox
a. Click at Smart Tag and choose Add Extender like previous action




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b. Choose Color Picker Extender

13. Now, put an Update Panel last row in second column


a. Search the property of Triggers in Update Panel




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b. Then click the small button to see the dialog box, later click add button to create a new
AsyncPostBack Trigger

c. Point it to the only available Button in our webpage




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d. Finally, set property Update Mode of Update Panel into Conditional

14. In the Update Panel, put Timer and a Label inside it.




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a. Set property Timer

b. Set property Label




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15. Then double click at Timer in order to type this code :

16. Now, double click at Button to demonstrate our AJAX Control Toolkit effort

Pay attention to the way how to change size of font and also the color
with hexadecimal value. And to force the Label using the new style, we
can simply use dataBind method.
17. Well, you want to see how its work ? Just press Ctrl + F5 to test it in your favourite browser.
18. Here is my sample capture result :




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19. Wow, very fast and easy right ?
20. Okay then, its nearly midnight and my song playlist nearly ended , so see you in next series.