Overview

Mercury-UI™ for ASP.NET
A collection of .NET Assembly DLLs and tools that assist you in creating sophisticated web user-interfaces, with a strong emphasis on fluid (resizable) layouts, browser compatibility, site performance and programmability.

Now with ASP.NET 1.x, 2.0 and 3.5 support.

Navigation and Layout
Always the foundation of a good client experience. Mercury-UI includes the following advanced controls to help meet your application design goals:

ASP.NET Development Features
Each control has flexible programming options:

  • Program the objects in any available .NET language, stand-alone or with the included tools.

  • Navigation controls can load & save state using XML and our own binary state format. Persist state in a file or a memory stream.

  • Navigation controls can fire ASP.NET Postback server events.

  • Layout controls can automatically persist their dynamic UI changes via ASP.NET Postback architecture.

  • Navigation controls can cache their DHTML on the client.

  • Navigation controls can be cached on the server.

ASP.NET 2.0 Features
Support for ASP.NET 2.0 adds the following:

  • ASP.NET 2.0 Theme support.

  • ASP.NET 2.0 Site Navigation support.

  • ASP.NET 2.0 Callback support (PanelSet).

Cross-Browser Support
Browsers are automatically detected and DHTML is rendered accordingly. See individual control details for more on cross-browser support.

Client-side and Server-side
Mercury-UI for ASP.NET navigation controls include the option to use either client-side and/or server-side technologies, so you can make the best design decision for your project.

If a project is best suited for client-side development, then use the included Studio design-time applications for creating and compiling .js files.

If a project is best suited for server-side programming, then use the included run-time .NET Assembly DLL.

Studio Applications

Studio Apps
Each navigation component includes a Studio application that functions as either a stand-alone or VS.NET integrated design program that can be used to visually prototype the object, save state files, or even compile a control's DHTML into external .js files that can be used on any web server or HTML project.

The Studio programs can also assist by generating server-side ASP.NET code that can be pasted into your page.

Tremendous Value
No other solution provides this much versatility in one package. What's more, Mercury-UI uses developer-based licensing which includes royalty-free distribution of the .NET Assembly DLLs.

Each developer who owns a license can re-use Mercury-UI again and again, without any additional costs!

Coalesys Newsfeed News Archive

11/18/2009 - Update: WebMenu v5.0.96 and PanelBar v4.0.96 (All Platforms)

3/19/2009 - Windows Internet Explorer 8 released, supported by Coalesys DHTML products.

11/9/2008 - Update: Mercury-UI (All Platforms)

10/12/2008 - New Release: WebMenu v5.0.94.x (All Platforms)