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Zee WebDock

Zee WebDock is the first ASP.NET server control that creates dock panels which truly resembles the look-and-feel of your favorite desktop applications or IDE.

Layout

DIV-based panels
Panels dockable to any of the four edges of the container
Panel groups for complex layout
Multiple dock panels/groups in a container or a panel group
Multiple tabbed panels in a dock panel
Container resizes with browser window

Behaviors

Panels can be autohidden, pinned, maximized or hidden
Live refresh of contents while resizing
Constraints on panel sizes: min/max/step sizes
Oversized thumbs allow users to grab thin splitters easily
Show splitter buttons only on mouse-over
Panel states, active tab index, positions of splitter bars and scrollbars persist across postbacks

Appearances

Customizable via CSS, Themes, and object properties
Customizable splitter bar thickness, thumb image, mouse-over cursor, etc.
Customizable tabs and action buttons appearances
ASP.NET 2.0 Themes support

ASP.NET AJAX

Works with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX
Customized UpdatePanel for better programmatic access and design-time support
Panel state and size updatable via AJAX postback, even panel is not an UpdatePanel

Client API

Selected panel properties accessible with JavaScript

Dynamic Panels

Dock panels, tabbed panels and their contents can be created dynamically at run-time
Panel sequence can be rearranged at run-time

Design Time

Excellent design-time support for Visual Studio 2005
You can work comfortably in both Design and Source Views
In Design View, server controls can be drag-and-dropped to panels, and contents can be visually edited in the same way as the default .NET Panel class
In Source View, the code structure is natural and highly intuitive

Browser Support

Supports all major browsers, and various modes (quirks/strict)
No more browser-hacks
Consistent box-model