One of the best things about VS 2008 is that it supports multi-targeting i.e. targetting different versions of framework v2.0, v3.0 & v3.5. By telling this let me come to the intent of today's post. When you fire up VS 2008, you don't see an option to create an "ASP.NET AJAX-Enabled Web Site" for framework 2.0. The reason being that is VS 2008 does not let you create a Template for ASP.NET AJAX Enabled Website by default. Somehow VS people forgot to add this small yet important thing to the most awaited version of Visual Studio. They shipped "Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for Visual Studio 2008" in mid December 2007 as an add-on

So, now if you want to create ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX-Enabled Website Template in VS 2008, you need to download the following in the specified order.

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for Visual Studio 2008