RichSlider - Features and Benefits

RichSlider

Overview

Highly Usable User Interface

Mouse support. RichSlider™ even works with the mouse wheel. Just roll over the RichSlider™ and turn the mouse wheel to move the slider and change the value
Configurable value label. The selected value can be positioned anywhere around the RichSlider™, and the text styling changed. Or if necessary, it can be disabled altogether
Rapid value selection. Reduced keyboard to mouse movement
The ultimate value picker. A RichSlider™ provides a user interface that is entirely self-explanatory, thus increasing user satisfaction and ensuring accurate data collection
Start on the right value. The initial start value of the RichSlider™ can be easily set

Full Design-time Support

Easy to configure using point-and-click - RichSlider™ fully supports Visual Studio .NET design-time features and provides the ability to configure the RichSlider™ using the property sheet, avoiding the need to write extensive customization code
Drag-and-drop. RichSlider™ supports the Visual Studio .NET ability to simply drag and drop a RichSlider™ onto your web form, saving time writing code and remembering tag names
Support for Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio .NET 2003, and Web Matrix. RichSlider™ works with all Microsoft® developer tools both using source code editing, and design-time visual development, and can even be used with Notepad or any other source code editor

Simple Installation

Easy installation. RichSlider™ provides single-file installation into your web application. In order to make use of the software, your deployment need only include a single file, thereby reducing your deployment time and cost
Single-file installation of samples, demos, docs. For evaluation and training purposes, all distributions come both as a single DLL, and also a rich installation package that installs and configures a sample web application including pages demonstrating all the key features of RichSlider™ to save you evaluation time

Complete Customization

Configurable Orientation. RichSlider™ slider works both horizontally and vertically and can be switched with a simple property setting
Visual customization. You have full facilities for setting the size, colors, fonts, spacing, and styles of every part of the visual display of a RichSlider™. Ultimately, you can make RichSlider™ look any way you want. The images used to make up the RichSlider™ can even be replaced, to create any style of slider you need
Highly configurable. RichSlider™ allows you to set not only the values at either end of the scale, and the steps along the way, but also the step size for when you click on the ‘track’ of the RichSlider™. You can also access the slider value both on the client and server sides, providing the flexibility to build the best user interfaces

Extensive Developer Features

Built for ASP.NET. RichSlider™ is designed from the ground up in Microsoft Visual C# for the ASP.NET platform. It’s built by ASP.NET experts, and suitable for anyone working with ASP.NET whether they are new to web development, or a long-time guru
Read-only mode. RichSlider™ can be easily configured to display in a read-only mode where the value on the slider is displayed, but cannot be changed
Invisible mode. RichSlider™ supports an invisible mode, whereby the slider can be hidden from view depending on actions elsewhere on the page
AutoPostBack support. RichSlider™ fully supports the auto-post back mechanism in ASP.NET, meaning that the web site can be configured to automatically send the new slider value back to the web server when it changes
User control support. RichSlider™ fully supports usage within ASP.NET user controls
ASP.NET Validator support . RichSlider™ provides full support for the standard ASP.NET validation controls allowing you to tightly control value the Slider™ can provide, which is especially useful with the CompareValidator
Customize what happens when the value is changed - RichSlider™ provides both client-side and server-side OnChange events to allow you to control exactly what happens when a user changes the value on the RichSlider™
Fully data-aware. RichSlider™ supports data binding, including editable DataGrids, and DataLists. You can quickly add RichSlider™ support to a grid and display (or edit) data directly from your database
Global Assembly Cache ready . RichSlider™ is provided as a strong named (signed) assembly and is ready for use in a shared environment in the Global Assembly Cache (for example in a multiple web site or shared hosting environment)
Complete Browser Compatibility

Richer Components RichSlider™ supports the following browsers:

Internet Explorer 5.0 and above
Netscape 6.0 and above
Opera 6.0 and above
Mozilla / Firefox
Safari / Konqueror
In all other browsers, a RichSlider™ degrades gracefully to an HTML 3.2 user interface consisting of a drop-down list

Server-side Requirements

The web server requirements for RichSlider™ are a Microsoft Windows® computer running Microsoft ASP.NET v1.0 or v1.1 on Internet Information Server.

Benefits

ASP.NET Developer Benefits

Quick and simple to get going – single-file installation
A broad interface for customization, with design-time support
No need to write value validation code or numeric regular expressions
No need to write or understand JavaScript or client-side scripting
Simple customization to tailor the user interface
No need for cross-browser testing
Extremely stylish web applications
Straightforward data integration (DataGrids, DataLists, etc)

Business Benefits

Uniquely rich web user interfaces
Collect more accurate data from end-users
Reduce intranet and Internet web application development timescales and costs
Reduce web application support costs through a self-explanatory user interface
Rich Windows-like applications within an intranet and Internet site, reducing client-application installation costs
Increased efficiency of information processing by end-users
A more friendly user interface for end-users and web site visitors
Reusable and adaptable across multiple applications, including secure sites

End-User Benefits