ASPxperience Suite v2011 vol 1 adds Docking Suite

This new suite offers three components - ASPxDockPanel, ASPxDockZone and ASPxDockManager.

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A selection of ASPXpereince suite's user interface elements.

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.

Updates in v2011 vol 1

• New ASP.NET Docking Suite - With this release, DevExpress have added a new ASP. NET Docking Suite to the ASPxperience Library.  This suite offers three components - ASPxDockPanel, ASPxDockZone and ASPxDockManager. They allow you to manage content placeholders (dock panels), which can be moved by end-users between specific regions (dock zones) of a Web page. A dock panel can either be docked to a dock zone or made to float. Dock zones can be placed within any section of a page; orientation and size is fully customizable. ASPxDockManager allows you to provide centralized programmatic control of all dock panels and dock zones contained within a page.
• Appearance Customization - With this release, you can fully customize the appearance of the DevExpress ASP.NET Upload Control. This also means that all DevExpress ASP.NET Themes (Office 2010, Red Wine, etc.) are fully supported by the Upload Control. You can use a single property to specify whether to render the control the older (native) or a new (fully customizable) appearance mode.
• Large File Upload - This release includes a new advanced upload mode - By incorporating Silverlight, this new mode gives you the ability to seamlessly upload very large files (more than 1Gb) without server memory overflows.
• Access Rules - The ASP.NET File Manager allows you to define access permissions for folders and files using a set of folder/file access rules. An access rule specifies a path to which it is applied and lists permissions (allowed or denied actions) associated with the rule. You can easily set up access rules for folders (including their files and child folders) and individual files. In addition, you can associate any number of access rules with specific security roles to group related permissions together. Related access rules should be assigned matching role names. Any created role can be enforced on the ASPxFileManager via its specific role-related property. The file manager will then display folder and files and provide access permissions to them based on the assigned role.
• Virtual File System Providers - Previously, ASPxFileManager could only work with a physical file system - it visualized the hierarchy of existing server files and folders starting from the specified root folder. With this release, DevExpress have added two more capabilities. You can now data bind the ASPxFileManager control and load the file/folder structure from a data source. And you can also create your own custom provider for file system information.
• File Download - You can now offer your end-users the ability to download a file selected within ASPxFileManager. File download can be initiated via the user interface (the toolbar's Download button) or programmatically. The newly introduced client and server events allow you to process the downloaded file and to cancel the file download when required. For example, you can use a server-side event to add a watermark to downloaded image files.
• Uploaded File Validation - DevExpress have enhanced the server-side FileUploading event - it now provides you with the opportunity to process and validate the name and stream of the uploaded file. New event argument properties allow you to inspect the file's bytes and name and to determine whether the file should be processed.
• Selected File Enhancement - A new server-side event has been introduced to help you process a selected file when an end-user tries to open it by double-clicking or pressing the Enter key.
• Scroll Bars - You can now display scrollbars within popup windows. The visibility of scrollbars is controlled by a single property. It can be set so that required scrollbars (horizontal or/and vertical) are automatically displayed if window content does not fit within the bounds of a popup window.
• Resizing Limits - New properties have been introduced allowing you to specify maximum and minimum popup window width and height. This prevents popup windows from being resized by end-users beyond predefined limits.
• Semantic (Lightweight) Rendering - DevExpress have optimized the rendering of the ASP.NET Popup Control. The control now uses semantic rendering combined with advanced CSS styles, which results in a dramatic decrease of HTML output, improved performance and a reduction on the server's workload. Note that this new lightweight rendering also benefits other DevExpress ASP.NET controls that make use of the ASPxPopupControl. These include the ASPxHtmlEditor (all dialogs), ASPxTreeList and ASPxGridView (customization windows, popup edit forms, filter builder).

About DevExpress (Developer Express)

Developer Express is a software development company based in the United States. It produces coding assistance tools and components for Delphi, C++ Builder and Microsoft Visual Studio developers. The major part of its product line is VCL, .NET WinForms and ASP.NET components that replicate the UI of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications. Developer Express has won many industry awards for its products.