When the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview was released back in December, it included the ADO.NET Data Services AJAX client library embedded into the System.Web.Extensions assembly, making it possible to reference by name from a ScriptManager (as shown here). This made it pretty simple to get up and running in order to consume a data service from within your ASP.NET applications.
With the release of .NET 3.5 SP1 beta 1, the ADO.NET Data Services AJAX client library has been pulled out of the System.Web.Extensions assembly and is no longer available out of the box. Luckily, the same JavaScript files that were baked into the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions release are available on Codeplex and can be downloaded (here) and included in your projects.
Do you feel like consuming a data service from ASP.NET AJAX is a common enough scenario that you’d like to see the ADO.NET Data Service AJAX client library brought back into the framework? Or is having it on Codeplex suitable for those few situations when you might need it?
