Welcome to WebDesktop.NET®
- the Desktop on your browsers™
WebDesktop.NET is a collection of 13 advanced UI controls enabling you to build
futuristic web applications with new breakthrough features such as windowing system,
desktop manager, notification system, integrated dialog box, tab pages, pane manager,
integrated menu system, buttons and more. At its simpliest, WebDesktop.NET is a
part of WebUI Studio.NET introducing Unified Component System to
empower a consistent, fully integrated, flexible and scalable way to develop high
performance Rich Internet Application in far less codes and efforts.
WebDesktop.NET does not only offer the most advanced UI controls such as the highly
customizable Tab, PaneManager, Toolbar and others -- it includes the new innovative
DesktopManager which is extremely powerful yet easy to use. The DesktopManager itself
offers 40+ features that are combinable, from global Window Settings to each individual
Window configuration; from shortcut icons management, task bar configurations, images
border type support to clientside-level createable items.
Built on the rock solid WebUI.NET Framework, it gives a true advantage to existing
customers who have utilized Intersoft's components with the familiarity of the architecture,
style concept, elegant grouped logical object model, and the same concept of client
side object framework which enables developer to easily add or remove items from
collection as it is in server side -- and many more. And as always, Intersoft's
renowned Layout Manager enables developers to pick a design layout with one click
without further configuration or CSS coding!
WebDesktop.NET is among the first Web User Interface collection designed natively
for Visual Studio 2005. It takes advantage of most native features of both Visual
Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 to deliver the new level of designer experience not
possible before such as the new Intersoft's ClickAndEdit™
innovation, TrueShape™, TrueDock™ as well as the
new breakthrough CssOptimizer™ which reduced generated CssClass
output to 80%. That means, you can now design and develop your web apps as
rich as possible without has to worry about the scalability and the styles output.
WebDesktop.NET is equipped with the following high end components to ensure your
next web apps to be definitely the trendsetter today:
The unique generic callback component introducing pure callback functionalities,
instead of only acting as wrapper or as medium to render server control
to client. Built on the top of Intersoft's renowned OnTheFly-PostBack architecture,
FlyPostBackManager enables you to call server-side method residing in a WebForm
class or a WebService (ASMX) from client side without sacrificing security. FlyPostBackManager
is capable to receive and parse any complex type of object returned from the
server side, either it is a DataSet object or your own serializable custom
object.
The first kind of its type, WebNotification is built on the top of FlyPostBackManager
and closely integrated with WebDesktopManager to enable you to develop a
shell-level notification system right into your web apps. WebNotification allows
specific server code to be invoked asynchronously at specified interval and upon
success condition, it will display the assigned data and actions available in the
context. With it, you could develop extremely rich and responsive applications similar
to Outlook 2003 or MSN Messenger, and the possibility to develop new kind of applications.
Like no others, WebExplorerPane is the exact replica of Windows XP Explorer Pane
enabling you to offer smooth user experience for navigation or commands functions.
The WebExplorerPane has exactly the same behavior as the desktop version, from its
animation style, animation speed with fading effects, gradient colors to images
customization. WebExplorerPane also employs TrueShape for round corner "look and
feel" without using images, ClickAndSelect and ClickAndEdit as in other members
of WebDesktop.NET family.
DesktopManager enables you to create high performance and powerful Desktop with
built-in windowing navigation system and shortcut icons, extensive keyboard
navigation support, customizable taskbar configurations, high performance
window switching and resizing, configurable window state, ClickAndEdit™ designer
experience and combinable 50+ advanced configurations.
The first of its kind, WebToolBar introduced several new breakthrough technologies
such as TrueShape™ and TrueDock™. WebToolBar is capable to behave exactly the same
manner as in desktop's ToolBar, such as multiple rows docking on four edges, hide
more items when the width has exceed boundaries, customization dialog box for extremely
rich level of user personalization.
PaneManager lets you easily create any kind of layout from simple horizontal layout
to complex Outlook-like layout. PaneManager's rock solid object model enables you
to create complex layout by using nested WebPane in hierarchical concept. The
component comes with advanced powerful Editor enables you to apply common layout
from predefined template with only one mouse click away!
Use StyleManager to free designers from having the needs to work with Visual Studio
or development IDE! StyleManager enables designers to design the styles and themes
of any member of Intersoft WebUI Studio.NET through standalone WinForm application
and later seamlessly integrate the themes into the designated web application.
StyleManager was built on the top of Theme Architecture and Serialization feature
offered in WebUI.NET Framework.
Offers menu functionalities with capability to display perfectly on either vertical
or horizontal positions. Unique features including feature to display the menu outside
of browser boundary for Internet Explorer browsers, highly customizable styles and
appearance as well as high performance client side rendering. The Menu can also
be configured as ContextMenu to be assigned as context menu for other components.
A versatile splitter component for your table layout. WebSplitter is a true splitter
component which can be used independently and applied to your existing layout. WebSplitter
offers automatic cell splitting scenario supporting rowspan and colspan, as well
as intelligent resizing mechanism enabling accurate unit measurement which return
the original unit type. WebSplitter automatically integrated in WebPaneManager component
for resizing functionality.
Tightly integrated with WebDesktopManager, WebDialogBox enables you to easily create
modal or normal dialog box on the top of DesktopManager. Developers can easily specify
which buttons to appear and specify the DialogResult as in WinForm applications.
The incorporated ClickAndEdit™ feature enables developers to easily design the dialog
box at design time, or simply construct the DialogBox at client side programmatically.
An advanced navigation pane component offering the richness of desktop navigation
in every detail of styles and behaviors. You can use WebNavPane to create Outlook
2003 like navigation pane where end users can specify the visible navigation bars
by dragging the splitters or though built-in context menu. You can choose to use
built-in Items collection for the navigation item or use your own control through
Custom Template.
Unique Button component to complement the WebDesktop.NET a consistent look&feel
and behaviors. WebButton is equipped with the easiness to invoke client side events
or predefined client side actions such as closing window, calling a method in WebService
through FlyPostBackManager, or to invoke your own codes in onclick event. WebButton
has consistent dynamic styles enables style interactivity in entire applications.