AJAX-Enabled Accordion, Editors, Rich Text Editor, and Tree View

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC is collection of light-weight, 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 the accordion, date picker, slider, 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 ones provided by the jQuery framework.

All controls have several built-in skins, making styling very easy. Also, AJAX is extensively used to reduce traffic between the client and the server; this minimizes data transfer and response time.

Editors

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

• Masked-Edit Text Box
• Numeric Text Box
• Percentage Text Box
• Validator
• Client Side Validator
• Skins

Toolbar

Essential Tools Toolbar can be used to display items within a pane. It also allows custom functionalities for every item’s click, mouseover, and mouseout events. .

• Features
• Skins

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. Common content formatting options found in word processors are supported, such as indenting, inserting lists, cutting, copying, and pasting.

• Features
• Enhanced RTE
• Resize
• Skins

Accordion

The Accordion control can be used to create collapsible panes similar to the Windows taskbar. It serves as a container that can host a collection of controls, just like a tab control.

• Features
• Skins

Date Picker

The Date Picker control allows end-users to select a date, visually, through a calendar interface.

• Features
• Skins

Dialog

The Dialog control supports displaying a dialog window within a Web page.

• Features
• Skins

Tabs

Tabs can be used to create professional tabbed interfaces for Web pages. This control is extremely light weight, and tab switching is done entirely on the client side.

• Features
• Skins

Menu

Menus can be used to create professional interfaces for Web pages. Similar to tabs, this control is extremely light weight and operates entirely on the client side.

• Features
• Context Menu
• Disabling Menu Items
• Open on Click
• Menu Separators
• Skins

AutoComplete Text Box

The AutoComplete Text Box control allows you to specify custom IEnumerable data that will be used as a dictionary. This control has a fully customizable data list, and it supports templates for drop-down menus.

• Features
• Skins

Generic Drop-Down

The Generic Drop-Down control lists built-in Office 2007 and Vista skins, and it is highly customizable.

• Features
• Skins

Slider

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC also includes a Slider control to visually select values within a given range.

• Features
• Skins

Tree View

The Tree View control 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.

• Edit Nodes
• Client-Side Events
• Expand Mode
• Skins

Waiting Popup

The Essential Tools WaitingPopup control for MVC supports displaying a pop-up indicator over a target area to prevent an end-user from interacting with the target area when loading. The pop-up indicator has a wide application of Ajax posts. It can also be used to disable a target control.

• Features

Captcha

With the Syncfusion Captcha control, you can be assured that only humans are accessing your site, saving your servers from automated requests and freeing your blogs from spam.

• Features
• Skins

Tag Cloud

Essential Tools MVC now supports a new Tag Cloud control that provides a visual depiction of user generated tags, where the importance of the tags are differentiated with varied font-sizes or colors or styles.

• Features
• Skins

Rating

Essential Tools MVC now supports a new Rating control that provides an intuitive rating experience allowing the end-user to select the number of stars representing their rating

• Features
• Skins