Essential Tools

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC is a collection of lightweight, AJAX-enabled, professional user interface components built especially to suit the programming model of the ASP.NET MVC framework. It contains a comprehensive set of components including tree views, tabs, rich-text editors, accordions, sliders, masked-edit text boxes, numeric text boxes, AutoComplete text boxes, generic drop-downs, menus, and date pickers.

A unique feature of Essential Tools is that several controls—including accordions, date pickers, sliders, and tabs—are based on the jQuery JavaScript framework, which is a powerful industry standard. This approach ensures that the components are extremely stable and rich in features. The controls have also been enhanced to enable easy integration into ASP.NET MVC applications. The enhancements also include several new built-in skins in addition to those provided by the jQuery framework.

Also, AJAX is extensively used to reduce traffic between the client and the server; this minimizes data transfer and response time.

Some of our MVC controls like Rating and File Upload use HTML 5 to provide a truly rich user experience.

Editors

The editor package is a comprehensive collection of controls most commonly used in creating data-entry forms. All editor controls have been built to provide a simple yet powerful means to capture the input data, and to validate and display them in the appropriate format.

Rich Text Editor

The rich-text editor in Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor that enables end users to visually edit and compose HTML content.

Tree View

TreeView is an AJAX-enabled, high-performance, highly customizable tree control. It also has an on-demand loading feature, which uses AJAX to retrieve the required nodes.

Navigation Package

The navigation package consists of toolbar, menu, and tab controls that allow you to implement rich and intuitive navigation semantics in your Web pages.

Portal Controls

The Captcha, Tag Cloud, and Rating controls are ideal for creating any kind of Web portal.

Docking Package

The docking package comes with a Splitter control with resizable and collapsible panes

Window Controls

The Dialog control supports displaying a dialog window within a Web page. The WaitingPopup control supports displaying a pop-up indicator over a target area to prevent an end user from interacting with the target area temporarily.