WebDesktop.NET is not just about DHTML-based user interface components. WebDesktop.NET is the next generation Web Presentation system which introduces new concepts and technologies to enhance productivity in four aspects of rapid web application development. This topic will list the new technologies grouped by the four aspects of web development.

Design Environment

One major breakthrough introduced in WebDesktop.NET is the innovative design environment through Standalone WebUI Style Manager. Designers can now build the application's user interface's styles and appearances independently from developers.

Development Environment

WebDesktop.NET offers numerous unique and powerful technologies that exclusively targetting Visual Studio 2005 which enables you to be more productive with the WYSIWYG fashion of development experience. The technologies are:

Runtime Environment

This section lists the new technologies utilized during runtime environment. The runtime enviroment are mostly related to DHTML and browser technologies. All of them have been developed to support Internet Explorer and Gecko-based browsers such as Mozilla, Firefox and Netscape.

Optimization Architectures

With all of the new technologies involved in three main aspects of enterprise web application development, the optimization architectures comes to complement the suite into perfection. The technologies above will certainly boost developer's productivity and maximize the value of your application by adding new significant features which increase end user productivity and experience. However, productivity and rich features will not scale properly and will even introduce performance issues without specific optimization architectures.

The following is the list of optimization architectures which enable you to build rich web application that extend and scale properly:

Xml Compressor
CSS Optimizer
Http Compressor

For the new technologies overview, see New Technologies.

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