AJAX: Unknown server tag 'asp:ScriptManager'.

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I just spent an unhealthy amount of time trying to figure out this error:

Unknown server tag 'asp:ScriptManager'.

I was baffled because I already had a reference to AjaxControlToolkit.dll in my project, and I had what I thought was a web.config ready to handle any AJAX requests. It turned out adding the section below to system.web fixed the problem.

<pages>

</controls>

</pages>

Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:54 AM all tech stuff , C# | Back to top

Comments on this post: AJAX: Unknown server tag 'asp:ScriptManager'.

# re: AJAX: Unknown server tag 'asp:ScriptManager'.

I usually rename the tagpreffix to something like aspajax whenever i start an ASP.NET Ajax project because the VS.NET IDE gets clunky all the time whenever it can't find the control in the default asp namespace.

Left by Keith Rull on May 16, 2007 10:14 PM

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perfect! worked like a charm

Left by Steve K on Jun 08, 2007 3:17 AM

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Hello there

How did you rename the tagpreffix ??

Left by A. J. on Jul 27, 2007 9:15 PM

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What is PublicKeyToken?

Left by Public on Oct 28, 2007 4:50 PM

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http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.assemblyname.getpublickeytoken.aspx

Left by Alex Bransky on Oct 29, 2007 4:19 AM

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Could you please give step by step

Left by Raj on Nov 29, 2007 10:33 PM

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1) Create a web.config for your app.
2) add the <Pages>...</Pages> given in the frist post above to <System.Web> element in the web.config.
something like this:
.....
<System.Web>
.........
.........
<pages>

<controls>

<add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />

</controls>

</pages>
</System.Web>

Hope this helps.

Left by Nassero on Feb 17, 2008 12:30 PM

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Thanks for taking to time post the fruits of your labor... tasty.

Left by donoho on Apr 02, 2008 7:23 AM

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thanks a lot!

Left by lakshmi on Apr 16, 2008 8:15 PM

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Thanx! helped me much :)

Left by Omid on May 07, 2008 11:20 AM

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Thanks, this fixed my problem

Left by Larry on Jun 12, 2008 9:12 AM

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Good solution...worked for me... :)

Left by Munish on Jul 06, 2008 11:54 PM

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Hi i have done all the above but yet my error ( Unknown server tag 'asp:ScriptManager'.) is found any one help me please

Left by helen on Jul 23, 2008 11:50 PM

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Thanks buddy it solves my problem...!!

Left by Joe on Aug 29, 2008 11:04 PM

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Thanks so much for this, sorted me out.

Left by Ed on Sep 28, 2008 10:57 PM

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thanks.It works...

Left by dhanesh on Sep 29, 2008 2:09 AM

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thanks a lot for sharing. It saved me a lot of time.

Left by Charu Agarwal on Oct 14, 2008 11:48 PM

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Thanks buddy. It was very useful.

Left by mahesh on Oct 23, 2008 1:38 AM

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me no saber

Left by mighty on Nov 03, 2008 11:59 AM

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I don't see <pages> in my web.config. I do see

There is only one entry or "pages" found in my web.config file

<pages enableSessionState="false" enableViewState="true" enableViewStateMac="true" validateRequest="false" .............
</pages>
is this where I add the post lines?

Thanks

Left by andyoye on Nov 06, 2008 1:38 AM

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i have already register and make tag prefix stil error comming.
pls give me solutin quick.

here i describe my register tag code
<%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="cc1" %>

in advance thank you

Left by Gaurav Shah on Nov 17, 2008 5:11 PM

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THANK YOU for saving the rest of us hours and hours of searching. worked like a charm!

Left by itrickski on Nov 20, 2008 9:12 AM

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I added <pages> in my web.config. It worked!!!

But i m getting follwing error in Mozilla Firefox

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "An invalid or illegal string was specified" code: "12" nsresult: "0x8053000c (NS_ERROR_DOM_SYNTAX_ERR)" location:

Plz help.....

thanks in advance ....Alex

Left by abhishek on Dec 14, 2008 6:40 PM

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Thanks a lot. After seeing the reference here I could fix the problem.

If you have the default "cc1" as your prefix after including ajax toolkit, the web.config file should have entry as follows if you include webservice references.

<pages>
<controls>
<add tagPrefix="cc1" namespace="System.Web.UI" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
</controls>
</pages>

Left by jsimhan on Jan 05, 2009 4:36 AM

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We had the same problem it worked like a charm!

Left by webdesign @ PK on Feb 03, 2009 7:26 PM

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Hi, Thanks man, its sorted out my problem

Left by Gane on Feb 05, 2009 7:40 PM

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adding AjaxControlToolkit.dll in your bin folder. build your project in .net framework 3.5 mode

Left by osman kasapoğlu on Feb 18, 2009 1:11 AM

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thnks it really good.it is stret forward solution.i like this article

Left by priyanka on Feb 25, 2009 6:36 PM

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an unhealthy amount of time

Left by Vito on Mar 18, 2009 2:40 AM

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<pages>
<controls>
<add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
<add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
</controls>
</pages>

Add the above lines to your web config inside the <system.web> root element.

Basically it loads the approriate assemblies.

Left by Ashandra Singh on Apr 05, 2009 10:52 AM

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the solution is

with in this tag

add this assembly code.

<pages>

<controls>

<add tagPrefix="nw" namespace="ErrorPopup" assembly="ErrorPopup"/>

</controls>

</pages>

Left by suri on May 05, 2009 12:11 AM

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My huge thanks to "Nassero"

ur code snippet solved my issue in rectifying the error message of scriptmanager.

Thanks a lot.

grt work by you.

bye

Left by Raj on May 20, 2009 6:19 PM

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Hi, thanks, thoough I had to struggle with the web.config this helped me to another step further.
No I'm banging my head towards how to set the permissions correctly, but that is another thread I think.
/a

Left by Anders on Jun 05, 2009 6:32 AM

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For my generated Silverlight web site project there was no web.config, so it took a simple addition of a Web Configuration Item for this to work. These lines were added in automatically from that template.

Cheers!

Left by Marcel Bradea on Jul 08, 2009 11:39 AM

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Great tip, works in SharePoint as well.

Left by Kam on Jul 09, 2009 4:56 PM

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Hi,
thanks a million...
I had this issue for the last 2 days and have screwed up..
this solution helped me lot..
once again thank you so much

Left by Dhivya on Jul 27, 2009 12:37 AM

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Hi
Thanks a lot
Great script

Left by Tatoba on Aug 05, 2009 11:18 PM

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It works perfectly. Nowadays you could need to change the tag in:
<pages>
<controls>
<add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
</controls>
</pages>

Left by Gilda on Aug 18, 2009 9:02 PM

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Thank YOU! Works perfectly...would've taken me days to figure this one out myself

Left by Esther on Sep 16, 2009 12:54 PM

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Thank YOU!

Left by Yeny on Sep 19, 2009 5:18 PM

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I didn't get it to work, and I'm guessing that it's because I have the ajax 2005 version, I think the version pair-name its the problem... what do you think?

Left by Omar Diaz on Oct 05, 2009 11:57 AM

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Thanks. That saved me at least an hour...

Left by dev_interview on Oct 12, 2009 8:23 AM

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My heartly thnaks to you dude. you made my day.

Left by Harish Vajja on Oct 15, 2009 11:28 AM

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güzel davetiye sözleri ve davetiye metinleri

Left by DAVETİYE on Oct 30, 2009 7:49 PM

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This fixed the problem on my machine. But, the interesting thing is the same code works fine on another machine which does not have the section you mentioned above.

Left by techincal_interview on Nov 01, 2009 4:26 PM

# davetiye,davetiye sözleri

düğün davetiyesi ve davetiye sözleri

Left by davetiyei on Nov 18, 2009 12:33 AM

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Hi. I can not use the web.config file. Is there any possibility to make the same declaration in the main ASPX page?

Left by goldengel on Nov 24, 2009 1:41 AM

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Still its giving error... I have checked in add reference ... there is no any sysetm.web.extension library ... what to do? pls help

Left by Mihir on Dec 09, 2009 5:16 PM

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thanks dude, u saved me :)

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Left by AlB on Mar 19, 2010 7:41 AM

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this error can also be fixed by installing (or reinstalling) the ASPAJAXExtSetup.msi package. (MS ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX extenstions 1.0)

Left by Joe Blow on Mar 21, 2010 6:10 PM

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holy crap dude. You've saved me so much time and headache on my very first deployment of an asp.net app on a shared webserver

Left by HaterTot on Mar 22, 2010 1:21 PM

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Thank you very much. it's working

Left by Pradheepkumar on May 21, 2010 11:21 PM

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Thanks alot
it really helped alot

Left by Amit A Vimal on May 24, 2010 6:34 AM

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asp:scriptmanager instance is not present. for timer control it requires scriptmanager. what should i do??

Left by Gauree on Jun 01, 2010 11:55 PM

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it worked man (Y) thanks

Left by faheem on Oct 10, 2010 8:10 PM

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thanx...it really worked...:)

Left by utkarsh on Oct 22, 2010 7:34 PM

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Thank you so much for this! I've been pulling my hair out all bloody day over this problem! Brilliant!

Left by Ash Robbins on Oct 26, 2010 3:52 AM

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I was also having this happen in VS2010. I created a brand-new empty ASP.NET web site and had warnings for all of my AJAX controls (such as “Element ‘ScriptManager’ is not a known element. This can occur if there is a compilation error in the Web site”). Adding the code above to my web.config file corrected that. The weird thing was, I could still load the page and all the AJAX stuff worked. It just mainly came down to lack of Intellisense.

WL

Left by WLBlakeshaw on Oct 27, 2010 9:06 AM

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I am not able to add ScriptManager control in C# 2008.
Error: Error creating control ScriptManager1

Left by Ashish on Oct 31, 2010 4:41 AM

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Thank You!

Left by Shilpa on Nov 02, 2010 6:03 PM

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Thank you for sharing this, it solved my problem!

Left by Website laten maken on Dec 03, 2010 2:27 AM

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it worked! thanks!

Left by Isha on Jan 11, 2011 6:47 PM

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Its all about the trust level if i understand correct its easy to solve with this solution.

Left by erd on Jan 18, 2011 3:48 AM

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Works perfectly. Thanks a lot!

Left by Rosch on Feb 10, 2011 12:51 AM

# Parser Error Message: Unknown server tag 'asp:ScriptManager'.

i am getting Parser Error Message: Unknown server tag 'asp:ScriptManager' when site is hosted.But it is working perfectly in localhost.

i added the above code and added dll's in the bin folder.still the same error is showing up.somebody Please help

Left by Vincent on Apr 05, 2011 11:04 PM

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thanks a lot

Left by Je on May 01, 2011 7:14 PM

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thanks a lot dude

Left by Je on May 01, 2011 7:14 PM

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thank you it was of great help

Left by Orcy on Jun 01, 2011 11:18 PM

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We have had this error with one of our webshops, we spend a lot of time to solve and we just got it again. This was a great help. Thanks

Left by 7 inch lcd monitor on Jul 07, 2011 8:19 AM

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This solved my problem ..great tip ..wonder why vs2010 doesnt include this in the config by default

Left by showme on Aug 27, 2011 7:30 AM

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Worked for me too!

Left by AF on Sep 14, 2011 1:32 AM

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It works very well. You make me save so much time.

Left by Maestrodabla on Sep 23, 2011 7:19 AM

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Thanks it solved my problem

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Left by Freelance PHP on Oct 24, 2011 12:07 AM

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I do all the steps as follow:

but another error occured,
the new error is:
"
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified

Source Error:

[No relevant source lines]

Source File: none Line: 0

"

Left by Ahmed Ali on Oct 24, 2011 2:06 AM

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As a novice that cannot reach my web designer, can someone guide me through the process to get my default index page back up and running. I get the message above when trying to access the site. If someone will furnish me a contact number I will call them.

Left by Shelby on Mar 28, 2012 12:37 AM

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Thanks so much...

Left by Bhumika on Aug 02, 2012 9:45 PM

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Thanks, solved my problem. But would you mind explain how did you get to this solution? I got curious.

Left by Carlos on Sep 11, 2012 12:36 AM

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Thansk a lot!

Left by Jacobo CAno on Jun 08, 2015 7:11 AM

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