WebDesktop.NET® 2.5 includes major enhancements in user interface, styles, AJAX improvements, wider scenario support for WebFlyPostBackManager and WebNotification, and rich designer experience.
If you are planning to upgrade your existing web application to use WebDesktop.NET 2.5, please take the following points into consideration:
- Enable SmartWebResources™ for WebDesktop and take advantage of the hassles-free deployment approach. With this new feature, you can now develop web application using File System Project (FSP) and Web Application Project (WAP) which introduced in Visual Studio 2005 SP1. The SmartWebResources™ enables all client resources including images and background images in the theme to display properly in design-time environment.
If you are a new web developer and would like to develop ASP.NET 2.0 web application using WebDesktop.NET 2.5, you may want to check out Microsoft's Visual Web Developer Express. Visual Web Developer Express is a lightweight version of Visual Studio 2005, and is provided for free by Microsoft. Since that WebDesktop.NET 2.0 is built on the top of Visual Studio 2005 architecture, Visual Web Developer Express is fully supported as well. To download Visual Web Developer Express, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/ -
If you are using a lot of WebMenuBar, WebToolBar and WebContextMenu component, consider to use the new Normal option for MenuWindowType. This new WindowType solves numerous display and positioning issues that occurred in Internet Explorer 7.0. Note that these issues are behavior by design in Internet Explorer 7.0 which limits the usage of "popup" object to prevent security issues.
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We have added new styles to all of the User Interface components included in WebDesktop.NET. The new styles are mainly focused on Office 2007 and Vista style. Check them out and easily apply the new style to your existing web application.
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