Essential Tools is a collection of professional user interface components used to create interactive ASP.NET applications. It can be used to create robust Web application interfaces using the menu and tree views, and the editor package also included allows you to create date pickers, masked-edit text boxes, percent text boxes, and others.

Our collection of Office 2010-style UI controls lets you create Office-style UIs in your apps.

The editor package is a comprehensive collection of controls most commonly used in creating data-entry forms. All editor controls have been designed to provide a simple and powerful means to capture the input data, validate, and then display them in the appropriate format. The controls also support complete data binding, internationalization, and localization.

The menu control comes with professional-looking built-in skins and a customizable application programming interface (API). Built-in support for orientation, data binding, and ActiveX overlay are provided. The menus can also be used in the Context Menu mode.

The navigation package includes a TabStrip control for implementing tabbed UI, a GroupBar control that lets you implement functionality similar to the Outlook bar or Windows taskbar.. It serves as a container that can host a collection of controls where every control represents a standard command.

The notification package includes controls that notify the user about events with regard to a process. These controls and their features are discussed in this section.

The docking package comes with a Snap control that allows you to implement lightweight docking of container panels, a Splitter control with sliding panes, and a generic drag-and-drop manager.

The tree package comes with a high-performance TreeView control with AJAX support and built-in styles. The object model of the tree is highly refined to let you customize the appearance of every element and node of the tree.
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