ASPxperience Suite

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Add navigation, data layout management and application flow control to your Web applications. ASPxperience Suite has been written from ground up to extend you with components that natively support the ASP.NET 2 Framework and provide complete out-of-the-box AJAX support. Controls included into the ASPxperience Suite generate minimum possible HTML code, can load scripts on demand, optimize style usage, provide full client-side API where appropriate. ASPxperience Suite includes twenty ASP.NET components: ASPxCallback, ASPxCloudControl, ASPxDataView, ASPxHeadline, ASPxMenu, ASPxNavBar, ASPxNewsControl, ASPxObjectContainer, ASPxPageControl, ASPxPager, ASPxPopupControl, ASPxPopupMenu, ASPxRoundPanel, ASPxSiteMapControl, ASPxSiteMapDataSource, ASPxTabControl, ASPxTimer and ASPxTitleIndex.

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ASPxperience Suite v2008 vol 2 (V8.2.3)

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What’s new in ASPxperience Suite v2008 vol 2?

• Obtaining Element Settings from Data Fields - With this release, controls (such as the ASPxNavBar, ASPxMenu and ASPxTabControl) expose properties allowing you to specify data fields from which items settings are to be obtained. Examples of settings that can be fetched from a data table are item tooltips, navigation URLs, image URLs, etc.
• New Media Formats for Object Container - The list of supported video and audio types has been extended with QuickTime Video and QuickTime VR (virtual reality).

ASPxCallbackPanel Improvement - The panel's content can now remain visible during callback processing. Note that this behavior is optional – a loading panel is displayed by default

What’s new in ASPxperience Suite v2008 vol 1?

Control Visibility Can Now Be Changed on the Client Side - Previously, there was only one programmatic way to switch a web control's visibility - by requesting it from the server and changing the server-side Visible property value. This required an additional round trip to the server, which in turn, reduced the application's response time. You can now specify the initial visibility state of a control and then easily change it via client-side code without initiating any round trips to the server.

Styles Rendering Optimization  - In previous versions, you composed the same CSS styles repeatedly on each creation of identical control elements (such as menu items). With this release, these styles are cached and are calculated only once. This significantly improves rendering performance of our web controls.

Callback Processing Improvements - While a callback is being processed on the server, developers can now redirect the application to another web resource. Previously this was possible only with postbacks. In addition, you can now handle errors that occur during callbacks (this doesn't only relate to errors raised by Developer Express controls). For instance, session timeout expiration might previously hang the application if it occured during a callback. You can now easily catch and handle these errors on the server side and thus provide a proper response. This is possible because we've implemented a special HTTP module that intercepts any errors and gives you control over further application flow.

What's new in v2007 vol 3?

Modal Mode in ASPxPopupControl - In this mode, the entire page behind the popup control is grayed and all controls within it are disabled. Once the the popup control is closed, the web page becomes active again.

ASPxMenu Enhancements - The checked state is now available for menu items. This allows you to emulate toolbar functionality using the ASPxMenu control.

ASPxPivotGrid Suite - You can now specify style settings for individual cells. Row field values can now be aligned to the top edge of their cell. You can now save and then restore the pivot grid's layout. Vertical scrolling is now available in the Field List window. Built-in context menus can now be turned off using a single option. You can now respond to click and double-click events within a cell. A new server event notifies you when a field's location or visibility has been changed. 

ASPxCloudControl - The ASPxCloudControl allows you to introduce a popular web navigation and data analysis UI into your next ASP.NET project. It organizes hyperlinks by automatically arranging them within a specified area and indicating their weight (importance) using different size fonts and different colors.

• Can be used in both both bound and unbound mode
• Automatic link coloring, based upon link weight
• The ability to display weight values near links. You can customize value color, string format and offset from the corresponding link
• Customizable text to be displayed before and after each link. This text allows you to separate neighboring links that have the same weight
• Customizable rank count. This specifies the number of size grades available for links
• Link sizes can be determined using either a linear or logarithmic scale
• By default, links are displayed in the same order they are in the data source. The ASPxCloudControl also allows you to sort links alphabetically

The ASPxDataView is a flexible data presentation tool. It arranges records into a specified number of rows and columns. If needed, it automatically splits content across multiple pages and provides end-users with an embedded page navigation UI - ASPxPager control. Page navigation can be accomplished via postbacks or AJAX callbacks - whichever is more appropriate for your application. Since record content is specified via templates, you can easily modify the ASPxDataView to display any type of information your require. For instance, the ASPxNewsControl is a good extensibility example. This control is derived from the ASPxDataView to display records as news headlines.

ASPxDataView

• Paging can be executed via AJAX callbacks. If this feature is enabled, you have total control over the loading panel's content and appearance
• Automatic record structure initialization. All bound data fields are fetched and then used to create the basic record template
• Customizable number of rows and columns per page
• Automatic empty row suppression on the last page
• Built-in ASPxPager control that can be displayed above or below the cards or on both sides.
• Customizable appearance for all elements
• Templates can be specified for records, empty record placeholders and sections displayed on the left and right side of the pager control

ASPxPager

• When used on a standalone basis, you can manually specify the number of navigable items and the number of items per page. The pager will automatically calculate the required number of pages and will create appropriate links for them
• Pager can include the following elements: summary text, previous and next page buttons, numeric links to individual pages and a button allowing end-users to show the entire bound content
• You can change format strings used to construct summary text when a particular page is selected and when the entire bound dataset is displayed
• Customizable text, images and appearance for all included buttons
• Customizable number of numeric links
• If the number of numeric links is less than the actual number of pages, an ellipse becomes visible. By default, you can see the first few links, an ellipsis and then the last few links. You can also hide the ellipsis or display it at the end of the line
• Optional separators between buttons and numeric links

The ASPxMenu offers you an elegant way in which to provide website navigation options to your end-users. This library includes two individual components - ASPxMenu and ASPxPopupMenu - to enrich your sites with both static navigation capabilities and context-sensitive action lists. Like other Developer Express web controls, building standard menus for your web app are not the only thing you can deliver with this suite. With integrated template technology, you can easily transform menu items into anything you can imagine - for instance, you can transform a single-item context menu into a popup entry form.

Control Features

• You can bind a menu to a data source so that your menu structure is retrieved from an XML file or a database table
• Several auto-formats are available so you can apply a nice design to your menu with just a couple of mouse clicks
• You can change the appearance of each element in each state either directly via properties or by assigning a CSS class
• Templates can be specified for root-level items, sub-menu items or for each item individually
• ASPxMenu allows you to visually indicate selected items
• Popup menus can be invoked by clicking, right-clicking or hovering the target element with the mouse pointer

Client-Side Features

• You can use client-side events to perform custom actions when a sub-menu is being invoked or hidden and when end-users click a menu item
• The client-side API allows you to select items, traverse through the entire menu structure and obtain each and every item's settings

Root-level Menu Features

• Horizontal or vertical layouts can be used for the root level. This means you can build menus that open sideways as well as main menus
• ASPxMenu provides separate appearance settings for root-level items

Sub-menus

• ASPxMenu displays shadows under sub-menus by default. You can easily disable them by toggling the ShowSubMenuShadow property. The same is true for popup menus
• You can customize how fast a sub-menu appears or closes after end-user selection
• ASPxMenu automatically adjusts sub-menu position so that sub-menus are completely visible within the browser window if possible
• Parent menu items can display small glyphs that indicate the presence of sub-menus. By default, such glyphs are displayed in all parent items except for those at the root level. You can enable sub-menu glyphs at the root level or make them invisible in all items. You can also supply your own images to be used as parent item indicators
• Sub menus can display a side strip (gutter) with customizable size and appearance

Separators

• You may wish to display separators between each neighboring menu item pair in the entire menu or only between items at the root level. Both these tasks can be accomplished using the same AutoSeparators property. You can also manually specify where to show item separators. Note that the ASPxMenu offers you numerous settings allowing you to control the appearance and layout of item separators - from margins to background image

Item Features

• Menu items can display images. You can specify an image to be used everywhere in the menu, in a particular sub-menu or in a particular item
• You can specify where end-users can click to invoke item functionality. The available options are: item text, item image and both text and image

The ASPxNavBar allows you to introduce cutting edge site navigation capabilities to your ASP.NET solutions with ease and simplicty. Whether you wish to emulate a Windows Style Explorer Bar or an MS Outlook SideBar within your application. In addition to traditional UI presentation elements, the ASPxNavBar allows you to create customized navigation options with its built-in template support - you can use it anywhere and everywhere you need to display list-oriented information to end-users.

The ASPxNewsControl provides a quick and easy way in which to display news/product headlines within a web page. To accomplish this, it includes two distinct controls: The first is designed for the representation of a single headline - The second is a ready-to-use news/product list control with built-in AJAX paging support

ASPxPopupControl makes it easy to display popup windows and hints on your Web pages. Simply place an ASPxPopupControl onto a form and populate it with arbitrary HTML content and choose where to display it. Need to display this window when end-users hover or click an HTML element? Then you only need to specify that element's ID and choose the end-user action - the rest is done automatically. It offers you mulitple options so you can properly align your window relative to that element and add arbitrary offset to its position. Of course, you can also show any number of windows at any pixel position you choose. And if multiple windows have been invoked, they will behave just like ordinary windows you are used to - end-users will be able to move them, switch the active window, etc.

The ASPxSiteMapControl adds an site map generation engine to your appliactions. It lets you read an XML site map and visualize it using numerous automatic link arrangement options. It offers you style customization mechamisms and even node templates so you can display anything you like within a site map node - from page descriptions to images.

The ASPxTabControl includes two components, allowing you to build tabbed interfaces within your web sites. You can either use the ASPxTabControl component to only display tabs or use the ASPxPageControl to associate specific page content with each tab. Both controls have been built to generate minimal HTML code, work on the client-side without hassles, be fast and fully support AJAX for on-demand page loading via callbacks.

ASPxTitleIndex is a Web control that can be used to organize a catalog - i.e. provide easy access to elements in a lengthy list (on the client side or via AJAX callbacks). This control arranges links into an alphabetically sorted and grouped list by default. If needed, you can group data by any field value. End-users can easily narrow down their search to a particular group by selecting an auto-generated shortcut link or by using the filtering option.

ASPxCallback - Provides an easy way in which to implement AJAX callback functionality. This component exposes a method that initiates a callback and passes arbitrary data to the server. The callback can then be processed using this component's specially designed server-side event. You can analyze data sent from the client and send the required data back. Once processed, a client-side event is raised so that you can update the web page on the client and thus finish the callback cycle.

ASPxObjectContainer - Enables you to embed flash movies, videos, sound tracks and image files into your web pages. In most cases, all you need to do is simply specify the target media file.

ASPxTimer - Represents an easy-to-use server-side or client-side timer component. It exposes a complete client-side API. You can stop or start the timer on the client side, change tick interval and, of course, respond to tick events.

ASPxRoundPanel - Provides an easy way to create a panel with rounded corners. This component ships with a designer dialog that allows you to specify corner radius, panel and border color, header visibility and color.