Asp – How to Disable ASP.net AJAX Framework in ASP.net 3.5

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I'm working on an ASP.net 3.5 website with MooTools as the AJAX framework. I want to disable ASP.net's AJAX framework so it behaves more like ASP.net 2.0. This is to decrease page loading times and to reduce incompatibilities. Is this possible and if so how do I go about it?

Best Answer

I was able to remove the System.Web.Extensions assembly from the references, and then I found and removed all instances of the ScriptManager control.

Once I did this, none of the AJAX framework stuff is rendered to the pages.

I wanted to keep 3.5 for LINQ and other jazz, so just targeting the 2.0 framework wouldn't work.

Thanks for the tips.