PanelBar for ASP.NET AJAX

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Overview

Navigation in your website isn't something you can afford to ignore. Telerik Panlebar control for ASP.NET AJAX offers you a professional and flexible Outlook-style navigation system with minimum coding efforts. It allows you to build collapsible side-menu systems, with cutting edge animations and limitless styling capabilities. The control's highly efficient semantic rendering guarantees fast responsive time and min HTML output.

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Features

Semantic Rendering for Minimal HTML

The Telerik ASP.NET AJAX PanelBar control implements a highly efficient semantic rendering, which uses list items and CSS instead of tables. As a result the HTML output is significantly reduced, which dramatically improves performance.
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Powerful Databinding

The PanelBar control for ASP.NET AJAX supports binding to all ASP.NET 2.0 declarative datasources (AccessDataSource, ObjectDataSource, SqlDataSource, SiteMapDataSource, XmlDataSource) as well as the new LinqDataSource.

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Extensive VS.NET Design-time Support
Telerik ASP.NET Panelbar provides rich design-time support functionality making customizations and configurations very easy. Some of the key capabilities are:
- Applying skins in design time and easily switching between them - the Choose Skin command in RadPanelbar Smart tag automatically detects the preset skins
- Item Builder dialog for easy inline creation
- Design-time support for declarative data sources
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Rich Client-side API

The PanelBar control by Telerik has a rich client-side API and comprehensive set of events guaranteeing full control over various functions performed on the client. You can easily add/delete/update items at the client side and all the changes will be persisted on the server as well. The rich client-side API provides unbeatable performance and desktop-like experience.

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Scrollable PanelBar

The Telerik ASP.NET Panelbar control automatically sizes your panel items and creates a scroll for your users to access all information with ease.

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Custom Attributes

RadPanelBar provides full support for custom attributes both on the server and on the client. It is easy to customize the item and include any attribute relevant for your scenario: additional text, value or image.

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Content Template Support

You can embed any content inside a RadPanelBar template, including HTML markup and ASP.NET server controls, including the Telerik controls or other third-party controls. Controls can be nested both in Visual Studio .NET Design mode and manually with the code.

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Expanded Options
The Telerik ASP.NET PanelBar allows you to control the way panel items expand via a single property. The supported modes are:
- Multiple Expand Option: More than one item can be expanded at a time.
- Single Expand Option: Only one item can be expanded at a time. Expanding an item collapses the previously expanded one.
- Full Expanded Item: Only one item can be expanded at a time. The expanded area occupies the entire height of the RadPanelbar.
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Right-to-left Support

RadPanelBar for ASP.NET AJAX provides full support for Right-to-Left languages.

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XHTML Standards Compliance

The ASP.NET PanelBar control is compliant with the XHTML 1.1 requirement. RadPanelBar also has full support for keyboard navigation with Shortcuts, Access Keys and Arrow-key navigation.

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Validation

RadPanelBar provides a built in ASP.NET validation. The menu can trigger validation of other controls on the form when it performs a post-back to the server.

By default, all validators on the Web page must be successful before the postback can occur. You can limit the controls that must be validated when the menu performs a post-back, while still allowing other controls on the Web page to be validated, by using Validation Groups.
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Search Engine- Friendly

The Telerik ASP.NET AJAX PanelBar completely follows the principles of Search Engine Optimization. The control's innovative rendering generates semantic lists and standard <a> tags, which are properly recognized and highly valued by search engines. As a result, all content accessible through this control will be automatically indexed and ranked with no extra effort required from the developer.
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Animations

RadPanelBar supports a variety of expand animation styles for a great user experience. You can select among various expand effects: Fade, Stretch, Gradient Wipe, Pixelate, etc. You can further customize them with any settings relevant for your scenario.

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Appearance

The ASP.NET PanelBar is shipped with a rich set of skins that allow you to easily build slick interfaces with the look-and-feel of Windows Vista, Office 2007, Outlook, etc. The skins can be easily switched using a single property.

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Codeless Test Automation for RadPanelBar

Now you can record, execute and debug functional tests for RadPanelBar without leaving the familiar Visual Studio environment. Telerik WebUI Test Studio is an advanced click and play web application testing tool specialized for automating ASP.NET AJAX applications. The Studio ships with special translators for Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX.

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