Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

Fabrice Marguerie — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:56:48 GMT

The technique used to combine scripts makes it really difficult to use with URL rewriting for example.

Would it be possible to still create a HTTP handler and offer it as an option? It would solve several problems like the additional query to each page and enable URL rewriting.

I posted this as a work item in CodePlex yesterday:

http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=10982

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

Delay — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:11:57 GMT

Fabrice,

Thanks for the feedback! We'll look into what might be involved with supporting an HTTP handler in addition to the current technique as part of the work item you opened. As I note in the blog post, that would require folks to have a certain level of control over the web server (i.e., it may not work for all hosted scenarios), but when it's possible to configure a handler, it could be a nice improvement to ToolkitScriptManager. Great suggestion!

ToolkitScriptManager: there's a new ScriptManager in town

LA.NET [EN] — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:02:34 GMT

Besides fixing some bugs and adding some new features to the existing controls, the new release of the

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

sburke — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:58:19 GMT

Hmm - do we really need a separate handler or would an ASHX do?

Tweaks and improvements by popular demand [AJAX Control Toolkit update!]

Delay's Blog — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:22:34 GMT

A short while ago we made available the 10618 release of the AJAX Control Toolkit . This release addresses

Script combining made better [Overview of improvements to the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

Delay's Blog — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:17:36 GMT

The 10606 release of the AJAX Control Toolkit introduced ToolkitScriptManager, a new class that extends

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

Delay — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:31:53 GMT

Per the above trackback, the 10618 release of the AJAX Control Toolkit has a number of improvements to ToolkitScriptManager - including support for the URL rewriting scenario Fabrice mentions above via the optional CombineScriptsHandlerUrl property:

http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/06/20/script-combining-made-better-overview-of-improvements-to-the-ajax-control-toolkit-s-toolkitscriptmanager.aspx

Regrouper plusieurs fichiers javascript grace au ToolkitScriptManager

Atteint de Javascriptite aiguë [Cyril DURAND] — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:44:24 GMT

Depuis quelques temps déjà, les dernières versions des Ajax Control Toolkit intègre un nouveau contrôle

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

dmose — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:24:31 GMT

Awesome tool... however, can we use it to combine regular javascript includes? Or even CSS files?

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

Delay — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:24:05 GMT

dmose,

Thanks! As it's currently implemented, ToolkitScriptManager is pretty closely tied with the way ASP.NET AJAX's ScriptManager processes and sends down JavaScript files, so I don't think it's directly applicable to other JS/CSS files. However, the basic concept is just as relevant and could probably be implemented similarly for use with general-purpose files. We just haven't done so here. :)

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

trent.niemeyer — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:45:30 GMT

Has anybody noticed the increased PreRenderComplete times when using this control? My best guess is that there is some expensive operation using this method when trying to combine scripts. The implications were significant within our app. Script combination only saved a *fraction* of total download size, where I gained .7 seconds on the server for rendering this script. Definetly a deal breaker.

Speed up load time of AJAX Control Toolkit controls while debugging

Loren Halvorson's Blog — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:27:30 GMT

This is probably already well known and well documented, but I still occasionally see people bemoaning

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

earthware.co.uk — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:00:25 GMT

How is this affected by the newly release CompositeScript functionality of scriptmanager in asp.net 3.5SP1?

Can we use the new functionality instead somehow?

Thanks

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

Delay — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:34:48 GMT

earthware.co.uk,

While ToolkitScriptManager should continue to work as it has, you should also be able to switch to the new script combining functionality in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 as your schedule permits.

re: Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]

moizdhanji — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:46:37 GMT

try following link ... it works very well

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/AspNetOptimizer.aspx

Moiz Dhanji