WebDesktop.NET is a collection of 13 advanced UI controls enabling you to build futuristic web applications with new breakthrough features such as windowing system, desktop manager, notification system, integrated dialog box, tab pages, pane manager, integrated menu system, buttons and more. At its simpliest, WebDesktop.NET is a part of WebUI Studio.NET introducing Unified Component System to empower a consistent, fully integrated, flexible and scalable way to develop high performance Rich Internet Application in far less codes and efforts.

WebDesktop.NET does not only offer the most advanced UI controls such as the highly customizable Tab, PaneManager, Toolbar and others -- it includes the new innovative DesktopManager which is extremely powerful yet easy to use. The DesktopManager itself offers 40+ features that are combinable, from global Window Settings to each individual Window configuration; from shortcut icons management, task bar configurations, images border type support to clientside-level createable items.

Built on the rock solid WebUI.NET Framework, it gives a true advantage to existing customers who have utilized Intersoft's components with the familiarity of the architecture, style concept, elegant grouped logical object model, and the same concept of client side object framework which enables developer to easily add or remove items from collection as it is in server side -- and many more. And as always, Intersoft's renowned Layout Manager enables developers to pick a design layout with one click without further configuration or CSS coding!

WebDesktop.NET is among the first Web User Interface collection designed natively for Visual Studio 2005. It takes advantage of most native features of both Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 to deliver the new level of designer experience not possible before such as the new Intersoft's ClickAndEdit™ innovation, TrueShape™, TrueDock™ as well as the new breakthrough CssOptimizer™ which reduced generated CssClass output to 80%. That means, you can now design and  develop your web apps as rich as possible without has to worry about the scalability and the styles output.

WebDesktop.NET is equipped with the following high end components to ensure your next web apps to be definitely the trendsetter today:

The unique generic callback component introducing pure callback functionalities, instead of only acting as wrapper or  as medium to render server control to client. Built on the top of Intersoft's renowned OnTheFly-PostBack architecture, FlyPostBackManager enables you to call server-side method residing in a WebForm class or a WebService (ASMX) from client side without sacrificing security. FlyPostBackManager is capable to receive and parse any complex type of object returned from the server side, either it is a DataSet object or your own serializable custom object.

The first kind of its type, WebNotification is built on the top of FlyPostBackManager and closely integrated with WebDesktopManager to enable you to develop a shell-level notification system right into your web apps. WebNotification allows specific server code to be invoked asynchronously at specified interval and upon success condition, it will display the assigned data and actions available in the context. With it, you could develop extremely rich and responsive applications similar to Outlook 2003 or MSN Messenger, and the possibility to develop new kind of applications.

Like no others, WebExplorerPane is the exact replica of Windows XP Explorer Pane enabling you to offer smooth user experience for navigation or commands functions. The WebExplorerPane has exactly the same behavior as the desktop version, from its animation style, animation speed with fading effects, gradient colors to images customization. WebExplorerPane also employs TrueShape for round corner "look and feel" without using images, ClickAndSelect and ClickAndEdit as in other members of WebDesktop.NET family.

DesktopManager enables you to create high performance and powerful Desktop with built-in windowing navigation system and shortcut icons, extensive keyboard navigation support, customizable taskbar configurations, high performance window switching and resizing, configurable window state, ClickAndEdit™ designer experience and combinable 50+ advanced configurations.

The first of its kind, WebToolBar introduced several new breakthrough technologies such as TrueShape™ and TrueDock™. WebToolBar is capable to behave exactly the same manner as in desktop's ToolBar, such as multiple rows docking on four edges, hide more items when the width has exceed boundaries, customization dialog box for extremely rich level of user personalization.

PaneManager lets you easily create any kind of layout from simple horizontal layout to complex Outlook-like layout. PaneManager's rock solid object model enables you to create complex layout by using nested WebPane in hierarchical concept. The component comes with advanced powerful Editor enables you to apply common layout from predefined template with only one mouse click away!

Use StyleManager to free designers from having the needs to work with Visual Studio or development IDE! StyleManager enables designers to design the styles and themes of any member of Intersoft WebUI Studio.NET through standalone WinForm application and later seamlessly integrate the themes into the designated web application. StyleManager was built on the top of Theme Architecture and Serialization feature offered in WebUI.NET Framework.

Offers menu functionalities with capability to display perfectly on either vertical or horizontal positions. Unique features including feature to display the menu outside of browser boundary for Internet Explorer browsers, highly customizable styles and appearance as well as high performance client side rendering. The Menu can also be configured as ContextMenu to be assigned as context menu for other components.

A versatile splitter component for your table layout. WebSplitter is a true splitter component which can be used independently and applied to your existing layout. WebSplitter offers automatic cell splitting scenario supporting rowspan and colspan, as well as intelligent resizing mechanism enabling accurate unit measurement which return the original unit type. WebSplitter automatically integrated in WebPaneManager component for resizing functionality.

Tightly integrated with WebDesktopManager, WebDialogBox enables you to easily create modal or normal dialog box on the top of DesktopManager. Developers can easily specify which buttons to appear and specify the DialogResult as in WinForm applications. The incorporated ClickAndEdit™ feature enables developers to easily design the dialog box at design time, or simply construct the DialogBox at client side programmatically.

An advanced navigation pane component offering the richness of desktop navigation in every detail of styles and behaviors. You can use WebNavPane to create Outlook 2003 like navigation pane where end users can specify the visible navigation bars by dragging the splitters or though built-in context menu. You can choose to use built-in Items collection for the navigation item or use your own control through Custom Template.

Unique Button component to complement the WebDesktop.NET a consistent look&feel and behaviors. WebButton is equipped with the easiness to invoke client side events or predefined client side actions such as closing window, calling a method in WebService through FlyPostBackManager, or to invoke your own codes in onclick event. WebButton has consistent dynamic styles enables style interactivity in entire applications.