Menus

The Menu control comes with professional looking built-in skins and a highly customizable API. There is also built-in support for orientation, data binding, ActiveX overlay, etc. The menus can also be used in ContextMenu mode.

Design Time Features	Appearance
DataBinding	Horizontal or Vertical modes
ContextMenu Mode	AJAX Features
Overlays Flash ActiveX WinForms Controls	Scrolling Support
Static Display Levels	Full Keyboard Support
Expansion Effects	ControlTemplates Support
Static Pinned Menus	NavigationMode
ServerSide Events	ClientSide Events

ToolBar

The Toolbar control offers comprehensive design time support with rich features, including, different toolbar layouts, draggable toolbars, support for image and text, dropdown menus, etc.

Design Time Features	Appearance
AJAX features	Floating Horizontal or Vertical Modes
Control Template Support	NavigateUrl
FullKeyboard support	Client Side Events

Editors Package

The Editors package is a comprehensive collection of controls most commonly used in creating data entry forms. All the editor controls have been architected to provide simple and powerful means for capturing data input, validating and displaying them with the appropriate formatting. They also come with full data binding, internationalization, and localization support.

AutoCompleteTextBox	CurrencyTextBox
Calendar	DateTimeTextBox
DropDownCalendar	MaskedEditTextBox
NumericTextBox	PercentTextBox
GenericDropDown	MultiColumn DropDownCombo
RichTextEditor	Visual Styles for RichTextEditor
SpellCheck

Tree Package

The Tree Package comes with a high performance TreeView control, with AJAX support and plenty of built-in skins. The object model of the tree is highly refined to let you customize the look and feel of every single element and node in the tree.

Design Time Features	Appearance
Expansion Effects	AJAX Features
Serverside Events	Clientside Events
ContextMenu Support	Drag Drop Features
Keyboard Support	ContentTemplate Support
Edit Node	NavigationMode
Treeview Combobox	SearchEngineFriendly
Control Over State

Tabs Package

In Essential Tools, user friendly tabbed interfaces can be created using the Tabstrip and Multipage controls, to create highly professional web pages.

Design Time Features	Advanced Tab Structures
Appearance	AJAX Features
Integration With Multipage	Server and Client side events

Docking Package

The Docking Package comes with the Snap Control that enables the dynamic positioning of ASP.Net content in web pages with options for moving, docking, floating expand and collapse with complete support for rich transition effects. It offers completely flexible and extensive design time support in defining the web pages.

SnapControl	Draggingmode
Appearance	Server and Client Side Events

Splitter Package

Splitter control includes the SplitterBar and Sliding panes that allows the user to divide the web page into distinct areas and to resize the panes. It offers comprehensive design time support and Client side functionalities.

Design Time Features	Resizable Panes
Sliding Panels	Flexible Layouts
Appearance	AutoScrolls
Clientside Events

Notification Package

The Notification Package includes controls that notify the user, about events, with regard to a process. The controls included here are PopupControlContainer, UploadBox, UploadProgress, WaitingPopup and ProgressBar. Their unique features have been discussed in the following sections.

WindowControl	PopupControlContainer
ProgressBar	UploadBox and UploadProgress
WaitingPopup	Rotator

Navigation Package

The Navigation package includes a GroupBar control that lets you implement Outlook Bar or Windows task bar like functionality in a snap. It serves like a container that can host a collection of controls where every such control represents a standard command or can itself include a set of commands.

Design Time Features	Appearance
Databinding	Integration With Multipage
Expansion Effects	AJAX Features
Navigation Mode	ContentTemplate Support
Server and Client side events	Client Side Methods