Community Contributions in Toolkit release 10920

When I wrote my previous blog post I was in a rush to make the release announcement because we had a lot of users waiting eagerly for it. But I did not get a chance to thank our users who contributed patches to the Toolkit and made the release a success. I would like to call out their names and the fixes they made.

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<td><strong>Contributor</strong></td>
<td><strong>Toolkit Work Item #</strong></td>
<td><strong>Description of the fix</strong></td>
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<td><a href="https://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/default.aspx"><strong>Phani Raj</strong></a></td>
<td><a href="https://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=9043">9043</a></td>
<td><a href="https://asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/AutoComplete/AutoComplete.aspx">AutoComplete</a> list items can now have additional data associated with them which allows them to behave like an <a href="https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.listitem.aspx">ASP.NET ListItem</a> with its <a href="https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.listitem.text.aspx">Text</a> and <a href="https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.listitem.value.aspx">Value</a> properties.</td>
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<td><strong>Koen Verheyen</strong></td>
<td><a href="https://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=9129">9129</a></td>
<td><a href="https://asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Calendar/Calendar.aspx">Calendar</a> PopupPosition setting.</td>
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<td><strong>Ryan Heath</strong></td>
<td><a href="https://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=11874">11874</a></td>
<td><a href="https://asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/samples/CascadingDropDown/CascadingDropDown.aspx">CascadingDropDown</a> PromptValue and EmptyValue added.</td>
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<td><strong>Jesse Mandel</strong></td>
<td><a href="https://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=8181">8181</a></td>
<td><a href="https://asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/samples/CascadingDropDown/CascadingDropDown.aspx">CascadingDropDown</a> default PromptValue fix.</td>
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<td><strong>G Morgan</strong></td>
<td><a href="https://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=10902">10902</a></td>
<td><a href="https://asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/samples/MaskedEdit/MaskedEdit.aspx">MaskedEdit</a> fix to make it work right in 24 hour and AMPM format.</td>
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<td><strong>Crymsan</strong></td>
<td><a href="https://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=12431">12431</a></td>
<td><a href="https://asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/samples/MaskedEdit/MaskedEdit.aspx">MaskedEdit</a> fix to ensure that it respects the page culture.</td>
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<td><strong>Tomasz Jastrzebski</strong></td>
<td><a href="https://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=11578">11578</a></td>
<td>IClientStateManager in UpdatePanel fix.</td>
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<td><strong>Tomasz Jastrzebski</strong></td>
<td><a href="https://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=10277">10277</a></td>
<td><a href="https://asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/samples/DropDown/DropDown.aspx">DropDown</a> panel positioning fix.</td>
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<td><strong>Andrew Ventura</strong></td>
<td><a href="https://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=11513">11513</a></td>
<td><a href="https://asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/samples/ValidatorCallout/ValidatorCallout.aspx">ValidatorCallout</a> performance improvement.</td>
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Thanks again! We hope to see more of these in the future. It is a clear sign that the community is taking charge of the Toolkit and shaping it the way they would like it to be. The Patch Utility has helped users provide us fixes for existing controls in the Toolkit but what about new controls? We should have a Toolkit control gallery coming up which will serve as a staging ground for new controls before they can be added to the Toolkit. I will provide more details in a following blog post very soon.