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What's new in ASPxperience Suite 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).

What's new in ASPxperience Suite v2010 vol 2?

• New Control - ASP.NET Tree View  - This control allows you to display hierarchical data as a simple tree and can be used to present menu-like information or to iterate through hierarchically organized pages/information structures.
• New Control - ASP.NET File Manager - The DevExpress ASP.NET File Manager is an Explorer-like control giving your end-users the ability to manage files and folders. This control allows individuals to easily select files, upload files and change folder structures (by renaming, moving and deleting files or folders). File and folder management capabilities are fully customizable and can be switched off whenever necessary.

What's new in ASPxperience Suite v2010 vol 1?

• Full Support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework Client Profile

What’s new in ASPxperience Suite v2009 vol 3?

• New ASP.NET Splitter Control - The ASPxSplitter control allows you to build web interfaces with user-resizable panes. When you place an ASPxSplitter on a web page, you get two container panes separated by a horizontal or vertical splitter. End-users can either drag the splitter to resize the panes or they can use the expand/collapse buttons to temporarily hide the panes they don't need. You can build nested resizable layouts since the ASPxSplitter control maintains a hierarchical splitter pane structure

What’s new in ASPxperience Suite v2009 vol 2?

New ASP.NET Rating Control - This is a standard five-star control allowing end-users to click a star to submit ratings. Because the control can be fully customized, you can also:

• Change the number of elements (stars) in the control.
• Specify the appearance of elements by providing custom images for normal, hot-tracked and pressed states.
• Change textual descriptions assigned to each element (star).
• One more feature requiring special attention is customizable element fill mode. Since floating values are allowed, you can choose between three fill modes - fill entire stars only, use half-star precision or fill stars exactly as specified by the control's value.

SEO-Friendly Mode in ASP.NET Pager Control - What was previously available only for pagers embedded into the ASPxGridView is now implemented for all ASPxPager controls. The pager control can now generate links that will be identified and followed by website crawlers. This wasn't available previously, because links in pagers invoked postbacks or callbacks via client-side API.

Dropdown Buttons in ASP.NET Menus - Menu items can now display dropdown buttons next to them. End-users can click these buttons separately to invokes a menu, where the first choice is the same as the source item. The menu then displays additional options. This item type allows you to emulate New menu items in Microsoft Office or Microsoft Visual Studio.

Easier End-User Filtering in ASP.NET Title Index Control - The ASPxTitleIndex control doesn't force you to use wildcards when searching for text in the middle or at the end of its entries. You simply enter a portion of the string, and the control will display all matching items, regardless of sub-string position.

What’s new in ASPxperience Suite v2009 vol 1?

• ASP.NET Hidden Field Component - With this new component, you can easily store a set of values without displaying them anywhere on your page. These values can be persisted and synchronized between server and client sides across round trips. The ASPxHiddenField control offers unique advantages when compared to the standard HiddenField control - publicly available client scripting API and simpler way in which to store multiple values.
• Flow Mode in Data View Control  - With a flow layout, the items in the ASPxDataView will flow one after another even after the browser is resized. This allows you to automatically populate the page area in the most efficient way possible.
• Progress Indication while Uploading Files - The Progress panel provides comprehensive information during the upload process. It includes a progress bar and a cancel button.

What’s new in ASPxperience Suite v2008 vol 3?

• Static or Dynamic Validation UI - Previously, editor validation meant that there's some code rendered to keep space for the error message that could be displayed next to the editor. With v2008 vol 3, you can enable dynamic validation so that all error message related HTML code is only rendered when an error occurs.
• Upload Control Improvements - The ASPxUploadControl can now display several editors, allowing you to deliver alternative solutions for multi-file upload scenarios. There's now a built-in Upload button, so you don't have to place an additional control on the form.

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.