This project aims to creating set of simple but powerful ASP.NET web controls for users who wish to use declarative programming approach. The main objectives of this project are:

• Simple controls automating common tasks and thus extending possibilities of declarative UI design.
• Maximum compatibility with ASP.NET standards and general infrastructure, such as membership, themes etc. Don't reinvent the wheel.
• The resulting XHTML code should be light, semantic and CSS-stylable.

I'm using similar set of controls for years privately. Now I'm cleaning the code up and releasing the controls for general public.

Install using NuGet

I recommend using NuGet for installing this toolkit. Latest version is always available in the official NuGet feed. Package ID is Altairis.Web.UI.

Included controls

• AutoModeFormView and AutoModeDetailsView - modified FormView and DetailsView for master/detail scenarios.
  • Can automatically change its mode between Insert and Edit, according to parameters it got.
  • After performing desired operation, can redirect to given page.
  • Can alter page title depending upon its mode.
• CookieStoreExtender - extender control for remembering textbox value in cookie
• DataPagerExtender - different approach to paging records in IPageableItemContainer control such as ListView, including routing support
• DateLabel - modified Label for better displaying of date and time values.
  • Different format strings for yesterday, today, tomorrow and other dates for more user friendly approach.
  • You can define a "null" date (DateTime.MinValue by default) and render special text for it, ie. "unspecified".
• DateTimeValidator - validator capable of validating date including time value (standard CompareValidator can validate date only)
• EllipsisHyperLink and EllipsisLabel - can shorten display text if is too long.
• Gravatar - support for Gravatar icons
• HierarchicalRepeater - generic universal templated hierarchical repeater control
• HostNameLabel - displays partially anonymized IP address or host name
• IconHyperLink - single control for displaying icon/text combo, with resource embedded 1000 Silk Icons.
• IconLinkButton - button control with resource embedded 1000 Silk Icons.
• IpAddressValidator - validation control used for validating entry of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
• MessageView - implementation of Viewcontrol, used when displaying simple text messages
• NamingPanel - "empty control" (Panel implementing INamingContainer), used for ClientIdMode=static scenarios
• PageTitle - used for setting page title declaratively, ie. from data binding
• Parameters - additional parameter sources for parametrized queries: UI culture, membership user name, membership provider key, better query string, HttpContext.Items collection
• ReCaptcha - server control for using the ReCaptcha service
• UsersDataSource and RolesDataSource - for declarative approach to membership and roles
• UserNameValidator - can validate if entered text is/isn't existing user name

Documentation for the controls is being built incrementally, be patient, please.