Add Stunning Image Sliders to Your ASP.NET Apps in Seconds

Nowadays it is really hard to capture users’ attention long enough to present all the information you want to. That’s where Image Sliders come in handy because they enable you to visually summarize content and introduce it to your audience in an interactive and appealing manner. Everybody knows that people respond better and faster to visuals rather than just plain text.

Here at Telerik we are constantly trying to provide you with more and more functionality out-of-the-box, so logically we delivered an image sliding functionality within our new for Q1 2014

Easy Steps to Set Up an Image Slider

1. Choose the right images and place them in a folder

That is the part where you choose what content you want presented in your web application. Then you could just place the ready images in a folder.


2. Bind the control

RadImageGallery provides various ways to bind it to data both on the server-side and the client-side. In this case it is most convenient to use folder binding which requires just specifying the path to the images folder. However, I will use the static items binding so we could observe each item and its respective title and description.

3. Turn on the Image Slider feature

Another important step is to set the ThumbnailsAreaSettings.Mode to ImageSlider which is required because the control provides multiple ways for presenting the images and supports a wide range of scenarios.

4. Choose a transition animation
Last but not least, you could choose one of the many animations that suits your needs best.

Liked What You Saw?

That’s not all! Go and take a look at our Image Gallery demos to see numerous ways to visualize images, transition them with animations, apply easings and bind them to databases, binary data, URL’s, folders or on the client-side. I am not here to reveal all of the control secrets but I have to tell you that it has been designed so it could satisfy requirements from advanced scenarios for full blown galleries to Image Sliders and small image areas that provide popup images.