Make your ASP.Net site IE8 happy with new Web Application Toolkit for Internet Explorer 8 Extensibility. That and six more Web App Toolkits too! (Bing, Mobile, REST, Social, etc)

Giorgio Sardo Blog - ASP.Net Controls for IE8 released!

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I’m happy to announce we just released a Web Application Toolkit for Internet Explorer 8!

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The kit include sample projects and the following controls:

• ASP.NET Web Slice control: Enabling users to subscribe to your content directly within a Web page
• ASP.NET Accelerator control: To facilitate the access to your Web application or services from any Web page through contextual menu options
• ASP.NET Visual Search control: Allowing users to search within your site through the browser Visual Search Box
• ASP.NET Browser Helper control: Used to detect if the visitor of your site is using Internet Explorer 8

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Web Application Toolkits - Announcing Web Application Toolkits

“Today with the announcement of Microsoft WebsiteSpark, we are launching a number of Web Application Toolkits to the Web. Web Application Toolkits are designed to enable Web Developers to simply extend their web application capabilities by providing them with a packaged set of running samples, templates and documentation.

The goal for the Web Application Toolkits is to provide Web Developers with resources such as project templates, controls, and code samples along with simplified documentation all in a consistent packaged format that is easy to download and run in a very short period of time. One of the key criteria around the Web Application Toolkits is to enable Web Developers to get to an F5 (Run) experience very quickly to ensure that this is the right solution for their problem; How many times have you heard developers trying for hours to get a sample to work only to find it does not do what they expected. The expectation is that with the correct prerequisites installed, a Web Developer can have a Web Application Toolkit sample application installed and running in 5mins.

For the Microsoft WebsiteSpark launch, we have released 7 Web Application Toolkits, together with an introduction to the Web Application Toolkits video on Channel9 by James Senior and Jonathan Carter. The scenarios were selected based on feedback from community developers with the first 7 being detailed below.

Web Application Toolkit for Internet Explorer 8 Extensibility

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Web Application Toolkit for Bing Search

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Web Application Toolkit for REST Services

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Web Application Toolkit for Mobile Web Applications

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Web Application Toolkit for Template-Driven Email

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Web Application Toolkit for making Your Web Site Social

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Web Application Toolkit for FAQs

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MSDN Code Gallery - Web Application Toolkit for IE8

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The goal of this Web Application Toolkit is to leverage the new features in Internet Explorer 8 (Web Slices, Accelerators and Visual Search Providers) to extend the reach of your Web site and services also to those users that are not on your site. The Web Application Toolkit includes a set of ASP.NET Web controls that you can use to take advantage of these Internet Explorer new features in your own Web application, including:

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Things that make our dev lives easier are good. I like easier… ;)