This ASP.NET server control enables the creation of Visual Studio style docking panels, featuring auto-hide, slide-open, maximize, and pin tabbed-panels. Appearance is customizable with CSS and themes and is compatible with MS ASP.NET AJAX. It supports all major browsers in quirks and strict modes.
I recently had the chance to use and review the first ASP.NET server control that creates Visual Studio-style docking panels. This control is excellent for creating dashboards or complex layouts within an application. The appearance truly resembles the look-and-feel of your favorite desktop applications or IDE.
With this control, you have the ability to auto-hide, slide-open, maximize, or pin tabbed-panels. Appearance customization via CSS & Themes is available. The control works with MS ASP.NET AJAX and supports all major browsers in quirks and strict modes.
The control offers DIV-based panels that are dockable to any of the four edges of the container. Panel groups are available for complex layout. You can have multiple dock panels or groups in a container or a panel group, as well as multiple tabbed panels in a dock panel.
The container resizes with the browser window, and panels can be autohidden, pinned, maximized or hidden. The contents within the panels are live refreshed while resizing. Oversized thumbs make grabbing thin splitters easy. You also have the option to show splitter buttons only on mouse-over.
Panel states, active tab index, positions of splitter bars, and scrollbars persist across postbacks. Customization options are plentiful: CSS, Themes, and object properties can all be customized. You also have the option to change the splitter bar thickness, thumb image, mouse-over cursor, tabs, and action buttons appearances.
The control offers ASP.NET 2.0 Themes support, and works with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX. A customized UpdatePanel is also available for better programmatic access and design-time support. The panel state and size are updatable via AJAX postback, even if the panel is not an UpdatePanel. JavaScript can also access selected panel properties.
You have the ability to create dock panels, tabbed panels, and their contents dynamically at runtime. Additionally, panel sequence can be rearranged at runtime. There is excellent design-time support for Visual Studio 2005, allowing you to work comfortably in both Design and Source Views.
In Design View, server controls can be drag-and-dropped to panels, and the contents can be visually edited in the same way as the default .NET Panel class. In Source View, the code structure offered is natural and highly intuitive. The control supports all major browsers and their various modes (quirks/strict), eliminating the need for browser-hacks. Lastly, it offers a consistent box-model.
With this control, you have the ability to auto-hide, slide-open, maximize, or pin tabbed-panels. Appearance customization via CSS & Themes is available. The control works with MS ASP.NET AJAX and supports all major browsers in quirks and strict modes.
The control offers DIV-based panels that are dockable to any of the four edges of the container. Panel groups are available for complex layout. You can have multiple dock panels or groups in a container or a panel group, as well as multiple tabbed panels in a dock panel.
The container resizes with the browser window, and panels can be autohidden, pinned, maximized or hidden. The contents within the panels are live refreshed while resizing. Oversized thumbs make grabbing thin splitters easy. You also have the option to show splitter buttons only on mouse-over.
Panel states, active tab index, positions of splitter bars, and scrollbars persist across postbacks. Customization options are plentiful: CSS, Themes, and object properties can all be customized. You also have the option to change the splitter bar thickness, thumb image, mouse-over cursor, tabs, and action buttons appearances.
The control offers ASP.NET 2.0 Themes support, and works with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX. A customized UpdatePanel is also available for better programmatic access and design-time support. The panel state and size are updatable via AJAX postback, even if the panel is not an UpdatePanel. JavaScript can also access selected panel properties.
You have the ability to create dock panels, tabbed panels, and their contents dynamically at runtime. Additionally, panel sequence can be rearranged at runtime. There is excellent design-time support for Visual Studio 2005, allowing you to work comfortably in both Design and Source Views.
In Design View, server controls can be drag-and-dropped to panels, and the contents can be visually edited in the same way as the default .NET Panel class. In Source View, the code structure offered is natural and highly intuitive. The control supports all major browsers and their various modes (quirks/strict), eliminating the need for browser-hacks. Lastly, it offers a consistent box-model.
What's New
Version 2.0: N/A